A novel compound β-sitosterol-3-O-β-D-glucoside isolated from <em>Azadirachta indica</em> effectively induces apoptosis in leukemic cells by targeting G0/G1 populations
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A novel compound β-sitosterol-3-O-β-D-glucoside isolated from <em>Azadirachta indica</em> effectively induces apoptosis in leukemic cells by targeting G0/G1 populations |
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Sarkar, Swadesh Pal, Amrita Chouni, Anirban Paul, Santanu |
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Anti-proliferative; Azadirachta indica; Cytotoxicity; Leukemia; β-sitosterol-3-O-β-D-glucoside |
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<em>Azadirachta indica</em>, popularly known as ‘<em>Neem</em>’, is a very important plant in the Ayurveda system of medicine. It is known toprevent about 40 types of diseases in home-practice. A previous report showed that the methanolic extract of this plant can effectively control the proliferation of leukemia cells. Therefore, this research focuses on searching for a new molecule with potent anti-leukemic property. Ethanolic extract was prepared from the dried leaves. Four bio-molecules were isolated viz. rutin, isoquercetin, quercetrin and β-sitosterol-3-O-β-D-glucoside from the ethanolic extract by repeated column chromatography and HPLC. Quercetrin structures of the isolated molecules were confirmed by Mass, 1HNMR, 13C NMR spectra analysis. MTT assay revealed that β-sitosterol-3-O-β-D-glucosideeffectively reduced the proliferation of MOLT 4 leukemic cells in a dose and time dependent manner. DAPI staining with confocal microscopy indicated that β-sitosterol-3-O-β-D-glucoside efficiently induced nuclear DNA fragmentation in MOLT 4 cells. Finally, flow cytometry after PI staining showed that the compound has potential to check the cell cycle progression at sub G1 phase. In summary, we can conclude that β-sitosterol-3-O-β-D-glucoside has potential to be good therapeutic drug in leukemia treatment in future. |
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Indian Journal of Biochemistry and Biophysics (IJBB) 2020-02-27 13:05:34 |
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Indian Journal of Biochemistry and Biophysics (IJBB); ##issue.vol## 57, ##issue.no## 1 (2020): IJBB Vol.57(1) [February 2020] |
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