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Anti-tumour promoting activity and antioxidant properties of girinimbine isolated from the stem bark of Murraya koenigii S.


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Kok, Yih Yih and Lim, Yang Mooi and Ahmad, Kartini and Sukari, Mohd. Aspollah and Mat, Nashriyah and Rahmani, Mawardi and Ali, Abdul Manaf (2012) Anti-tumour promoting activity and antioxidant properties of girinimbine isolated from the stem bark of Murraya koenigii S. Molecules, 17 (4). pp. 4651-4660. ISSN 1420-3049

Abstract

Girinimbine, a carbazole alkaloid isolated from the stem bark of Murraya koenigii was tested for the in vitro anti-tumour promoting and antioxidant activities. Anti-tumour promoting activity was determined by assaying the capability of this compound to inhibit the expression of early antigen of Epstein-Barr virus (EA-EBV) in Raji cells that was induced by the tumour promoter, phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate. The concentration of this compound that gave an inhibition rate at fifty percent was 6.0 μg/mL and was not cytotoxic to the cells. Immunoblotting analysis of the expression of EA-EBV showed that girinimbine was able to suppress restricted early antigen (EA-R). However, diffused early antigen (EA-D) was partially suppressed when used at 32.0 μg/mL. Girinimbine exhibited a very strong antioxidant activity as compared to α-tocopherol and was able to inhibit superoxide generation in the 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA)-induced differentiated premyelocytic HL-60 cells more than 95%, when treated with the compound at 5.3 and 26.3 μg/mL, respectively. However girinimbine failed to scavenge the stable diphenyl picryl hydrazyl (DPPH)-free radical.


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Item Type: Article
Divisions: Faculty of Science
DOI Number: https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules17044651
Publisher: MDPI
Keywords: Murraya koenigii; Girinimbine; Anti-tumour promoting activity; Antioxidative; Superoxide.
Depositing User: Nur Farahin Ramli
Date Deposited: 22 Nov 2013 01:11
Last Modified: 21 Sep 2015 00:04
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URI: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/25292
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