Journal
MOLECULES
Volume 25, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/molecules25010224
Keywords
alternative medicine; natural compound; herbal compound; lung cancer; apoptosis; Wnt inhibitor; dosing; benzophenanthridine alkaloid
Funding
- UCSI University Research Grant Scheme [Proj-In-FMS-008]
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Plant secondary metabolites have been seen as alternatives to seeking new medicines for treating various diseases. Phytochemical scientists remain hopeful that compounds isolated from natural sources could help alleviate the leading problem in oncology-the lung malignancy that kills an estimated two million people annually. In the present study, we characterized a medicinal compound benzophenanthridine alkaloid, called chelerythrine chloride for its anti-tumorigenic activities. Cell viability assays confirmed its cytotoxicity and anti-proliferative activity in non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC) cell lines. Immunofluorescence staining of beta-catenin revealed that there was a reduction of nuclear content as well as overall cellular content of beta-catenin after treating NCI-H1703 with chelerythrine chloride. In functional characterizations, we observed favorable inhibitory activities of chelerythrine chloride in cancer stem cell (CSC) properties, which include soft agar colony-forming, migration, invasion, and spheroid forming abilities. Interesting observations in chelerythrine chloride treatment noted that its action abides to certain concentration-specific-targeting behavior in modulating beta-catenin expression and apoptotic cell death. The downregulation of beta-catenin implicates the downregulation of CSC transcription factors like SOX2 and MYC. In conclusion, chelerythrine chloride has the potential to mitigate cancer growth due to inhibitory actions toward the tumorigenic activity of CSC in lung cancer and it can be flexibly adjusted according to concentration to modulate specific targeting in different cell lines.
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