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Active Compound of Pharbitis Semen (Pharbitis nil Seeds) Suppressed KRAS-Driven Colorectal Cancer and Restored Muscle Cell Function during Cancer Progression.

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Song, Jisu 
Seo, Heejung 
Kim, Mi-Ryung 
Lee, Sang-Jae 
Ahn, Sooncheol 

Abstract

Kirsten rat sarcoma viral oncogene homolog (KRAS)-driven colorectal cancer (CRC) is notorious to target with drugs and has shown ineffective treatment response. The seeds of Pharbitis nil, also known as morning glory, have been used as traditional medicine in East Asia. We focused on whether Pharbitis nil seeds have a suppressive effect on mutated KRAS-driven CRC as well as reserving muscle cell functions during CRC progression. Seeds of Pharbitis nil (Pharbitis semen) were separated by chromatography and the active compound of Pharbitis semen (PN) was purified by HPLC. The compound PN efficiently suppressed the proliferation of mutated KRAS-driven CRC cells and their clonogenic potentials in a concentration-dependent manner. It also induced apoptosis of SW480 human colon cancer cells and cell cycle arrest at the G2/M phase. The CRC related pathways, including RAS/ERK and AKT/mTOR, were assessed and PN reduced the phosphorylation of AKT and mTOR. Furthermore, PN preserved muscle cell proliferation and myotube formation in cancer conditioned media. In summary, PN significantly suppressed mutated KRAS-driven cell growth and reserved muscle cell function. Based on the current study, PN could be considered as a promising starting point for the development of a nature-derived drug against KRAS-mutated CRC progression.

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KRAS, Pharbitis nil, colorectal cancer, muscle function, Apoptosis, Cell Line, Tumor, Cell Proliferation, Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid, Colorectal Neoplasms, Humans, Ipomoea nil, Muscle Cells, Mutation, Proto-Oncogene Proteins p21(ras), Seeds

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Molecules

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1420-3049
1420-3049

Volume Title

25

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MDPI AG
Sponsorship
National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2016R1A1A1A05921948, NRF-2013M3A9A5076603, NRF-2016R1D1A1B03936183)