Hemimycale Arabica Induced Non-Cytotoxic Anti-Migratory Activity in Hepatocellular Carcinoma In Vitro

OBJECTIVE: In this work, we represented new non-cytotoxic treatments to avoid serious side effects of current used cytotoxic anticancer drugs. These treatments can compensate in finding convenient treatment for each individual case using a single agent from marine sponge Hemimycale arabica.

METHODS: The ethanol extract was partitioned by cold sequential liquid-liquid extraction to afford petroleum ether, diethyl ether, dichloromethane and ethyl acetate fractions. Chemical composition of H. arabica was performed by gas-liquid chromatography and gas chromatography-mass spectroscopy. Anticancer activity was evaluated by means of cytotoxicity, apoptosis induction, tumor cell migration inhibition and expression analysis of proliferation and migration-related genes.

RESULTS: Our results revealed that all treatments were non-cytotoxic except for dichloromethane fraction which exhibited moderate cytotoxic activity. Caspase-independent apoptosis was induced by total ethanol and dichloromethane fractions while ethyl acetate fraction induces caspase-dependent apoptosis. All treatments inhibited matrix metalloproteinase-independent migration. Petroleum ether and dichloromethane inhibited migration through the down-regulation of FGF and it could be used as anticancer therapy for VEGF-resistance patients. While ethanol inhibited tumor cell migration through down-regulation of all tested genes expression. Ether and ethyl acetate fractions exerted anti-migratory activity without affecting the tested genes. All resuls were statistically significant at p˂0.05.

CONCLUSION: Total ethanol extract is a promising non-cytotoxic anticancer agent because of its powerful apoptosis induction and capability to block tumor cell migration. Petroleum ether and ether fractions area weak non-cytotoxic anti-migratory agents. Dichloromethane could be a moderate cytotoxic anti-migratory agent induced caspase-independent apoptosis. It could be used in anticancer therapy for VEGF-resistance patients through downregulation of FGF. Ethyl acetate fraction considered a non-cytotoxic agent exerting moderate anti-migratory activity. The new sponge-derived treatments can solve different resistance problems to find a convenient treatment for each individual case using a single agent.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:23

Enthalten in:

Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP - 23(2022), 9 vom: 01. Sept., Seite 2921-2928

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Rady, Hanaa Mahrous [VerfasserIn]
Hassan, Amal Z [VerfasserIn]
Abd-Alla, Howaida I [VerfasserIn]
Abdel Raouf, Haiam [VerfasserIn]
Salem, Sohair M [VerfasserIn]

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Acetates
Alkanes
Antineoplastic Agents
Caspases
EC 3.4.22.-
Ethanol
Ether
Ethyl acetate
GC-MS
Growth factors
Journal Article
Methylene Chloride
Migration
Naphtha
O3L624621X
Plant Extracts
Solvents
Sponge
Surface markers
Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor A

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Date Completed 30.09.2022

Date Revised 07.01.2023

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.31557/APJCP.2022.23.9.2921

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM346882141