Ganoderma lucidum has been traditionally used as a medicine for treatment of bronchitis, arthritis, and high blood pressure, and it has been reported to display many biological activities including anticancer and immune activities. Since mushroom mycelium is known to have excellent biological activities together with mushroom fruiting body, studies on biological activities of mushroom mycelium have been actively conducted. Thus, the present study compared the biological activities before and after the cultivation of Ganoderma lucidum mycelium on Atractylodes rhizoma. When the radical scavenging activity was assessed by the DPPH assay, ARGL (ethanol extract of Atractylodes rhizoma mycelium fermented with Ganoderma lucidum) showed radical scavenging activity of 5.58~82.56% at concentrations of 10~500 μg/assay, while AR (ethanol extract of Atractylodes rhizoma) showed radical scavenging activity of 5.27~72.08% at the same concentrations. When measured by using the ABTS assay, ARGL showed higher radical scavenging activity than AR, which was consistent with the result obtained by the DPPH assay. In the MTT assay, the cytotoxicity of ARGL against all cell lines was higher than that of AR. In particular, the cytotoxicities of AR and ARGL against Hep3B at a concentration of 400 μg/assay were 71.81% and 86.40%, respectively. In addition, the result obtained by the SRB assay was consistent with the result obtained by the MTT assay. According to the results mentioned above, there is a high probability that medicinal herb cultures using mycelium can be used as sources of functional foods since the cytotoxicities against cancer cells and antioxidant activities increased when the mycelium was fermented with Atractylodes rhizoma.

Lycorine, a natural alkaloid extracted from the Amaryllidaceae plant family, was reported to various physiological and pharmacological effects including anti-cancer activity. Nevertheless, there is no report of the anticancer effect of lycorine in oral cancer cells. The effects of lycorine on cell proliferation and apoptosis were examined through trypan blue exclusion assay, 4’-6-diamidino-2-phenylindole (DAPI) stain, Live/Dead assay, Western blot analysis and RT-PCR. Lycorine suppressed cell viability and induced apoptosis in MC3 and HSC-3 cell lines. Lycorine decreased survivin protein but did not affect its mRNA. It regulated survivin through accelerating protein degradation in a time-dependent manner although neither proteasome nor lysosome was not associated with lycorine-mediated protein degradation. Collectively, our results suggest that lycorine may be a potential therapeutic anti-cancer drug candidate for the treatment of human oral cancer.

Lung cancer caused by diverse changes in cells resulted by exposure to carcinogens found in tobacco smoke, the environment, or sequential accumulation of genetic changes to the normal epithelial cells of the lung. An assessment was made of the anti-proliferative activity of constituents from silkworm feces against 11 human cancer cell lines, including A549 and H727 lung cancer cell lines, using a 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyl tetrazolium bromide assay. The ethanol extract of silkworm feces was proved to have anti-proliferative activity against all 11 species of human cancer cell lines. The biologically active constituent was characterized as vomifoliol (blumenol A) (1) and stigmasterol (2) by spectroscopic analysis ,including MS and NMR. In conclusion, global efforts to reduce the level of antitcancer agents justify further studies on the silkworm feces-derived materials containing vomifoliol and stigmasterol as potential anticancer products or lead compounds for the prevention or eradication from human lung cancer.

The anti-proliferative efficacy of t,t-conjugated linoleic acid (t,t-CLA), c9,t11-CLA, and t10,c12-CLA was compared in several human cancer cell lines. Gastric NCI-N87, liver Hep3B, pancreas Capan-2, and lung NCI-H522 cancer cells were incubated with 50 μM CLA isomers over a period of 6 days. The t,t-CLA inhibited the growth of all cancer cell lines to different extents, but c9,t11-CLA and t10,c12-CLA inhibited or stimulated the growth of the cancer cell lines. NCI-N87 cells were the most sensitive to growth inhibition and apoptosis from all CLA isomers tested. In NCI-N87 cells, CLA isomers reduced the release of arachidonic acid (AA) via the inhibition of cytosolic phospholipase A2 (cPLA2 ) activity, consequently reducing the production of PGE2 through the inhibition of cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2). The efficacies of CLA isomers were in the following order (from most to least effective): t,t-CLA, t10,c12-CLA and c9,t11-CLA. Overall, these results imply that the anti-proliferative efficacy of t,t-CLA on cancer cells, especially NCI-N87 cells, was greater than other CLA isomers due to its induction of apoptosis through the inhibition of cPLA2 and COX-2 activities.

For investigate intracellular function and role of genes in the biological processes, various gene delivery methods into cell have been developed. Many studies performed to construct optimum conditions of gene delivery into cells and tissues. In this study, we examined efficiency of gene delivery-complexed with cationic lipid vector in human cancer cell lines. GFP plasmids were complexed with cationic lipid and transfected into human cancer cell lines at different concentrations. And then, expression of GFP was analysed with fluorescent microscope and FACS. To determine efficiency of gene delivery, we investigated GFP expression level in various cancer cell lines. GFP expression cells were not shown in hepatocellular carcinoma cell line HepG2 and lung carcimona cell line A549 after 24hr transfection, while, GFP expression cells were observed at 500ng concentration after 48hr transfection. In colorectal carcinoma cell line HCT116, GFP expression cells were observed at 100ng and 500ng concentrations after 24hr transfection and slightly increased at 48hr. After transfection into ovary adenocarcinoma cell line SKOV3, we could found that many cells expressed GFP at 500ng concentration after 24hr and highly elevated GFP expression cells after 48hr. For further evaluate gene expression level, we confirmed GFP expression level by using FACS analysis after 48hr transfection. As a result, HepG2 was expressed GFP in very low level at 10ng, 100ng, and 500ng concentrations. We also identified that GFP was expressed low level at 10ng and 100ng in HCT116 and A549, but highly increased at 500ng concentration to 14.19% and 16.57%, respectively. In case of SKOV3, GFP expression was highly elevated to 13.14% at 100ng and 58.10% at 500ng compared with 10ng transfection. By Comparing efficiency of gene expression among cancer cell lines, GFP expression was similar with cell lines at 10ng transfection, but significantly differed from cell lines at 500ng higher concentration. Additionally, GFP expression level of SKOV3 was showed about 10 fold higher than HepG2, and about 4 fold higher than HCT116 and A549 at 500ng. These results demonstrated that efficiency of gene delivery-complexed with cationic lipid vector was the highest in SKOV3, while HepG2 was showed the lowest efficiency. Taken together, we could determined that efficiency of gene delivery into cells differed from each human cancer cell lines. Our study suggest that cellular properties should be considered in gene delivery-complexed with cationic lipid vector to improve cellular expression efficiency of gene.

Many methods have been developed for more efficient gene delivery and expression in human cells. A number of studies have been performed in achieving successful gene delivery and expression conditions. We investigated differential gene expression patterns after delivery adenoviral vector containing green fluorescent protein(GFP) gene into human cancer cell lines. We constructed recombinant adenoviral Ad-CMV-GFP containing CMV promoter and GFP gene. The efficiency of gene expression was assessed by observation GFP expressing cells using fluorescent microscopy after transfer of Ad-CMV-GFP in concentrations of 0.1μl. 1μl. 10μl. At first, we evaluated expression patterns of gene in several human cancer cell lines, gastric adenocarcinoma cell line AGS was showed high level of GFP expression compared with colorectal adenocarcinoma cell line HT-29. After transfer 0.1μl of Ad-CMV-GFP in AGS, we could found that GFP expression cells were observed in next day and highly increased 2 days. While, small number of GFP expressing cells were examined in HT-29 and SNU-C4. Therefore, these data showed that AGS was expressed the highest level of GFP and almost AGS cells seems to express GFP in concentration of 1μl of Ad-CMV-GFP. GFP expression pattern in HT-29 reveal that expression was low in next day after gene transfer but significantly increase expression level in 2 days. In case of SNU-C4, GFP expression increased with increasing concentration of Ad-CMV-GFP and t ransfer times. For examine effects of transfer times in small amount gene, we transfer in concentration of 0.1μl Ad-CMV-GFP and detected GFP expression patterns after 2 days or 4 days. As a result, expression level of GFP in AGS was increase about 2 fold after 4 days compared with 2 days, but any difference of GFP expression levels were not showed in HT-29 and SNU-C4. Our study suggested that adenovirus was very efficient gene transfer vector for gene expression in human cancer cell lines. In addition to, we also demonstrated that gene expression patterns was dependent on each human cell lines. Therefore, further studies will be needed to confirm the optimum conditions for efficient gene delivery and expression in each target cell lines with consideration to cellular properties.

chemosensitivity test of Geungsonojukwhan-Bijukbang was performed on the three different human cancer cell lines originated from liver, cervix and colon tissue, namely Hep 3B, Hela and HCT-15, which have similar doubling times. Semiautomated sulforhodamine B(SRB) assay appears to offer an valuable tool for chemosensitivity of unknown compounds, since it is a simple, valid and inexpensive method of assessing drug monitoring for large samples in a short time. The results obtained in this study were as follows 1. Good correlations were shown from the results of SRB assay and those of clogenetic assay. 2. As a result of exposure to Geungsonojukwhan, the proliferation of Hela cell and Hep 3B cell was slightly decreased in Geungsonojukwhan-Bijukbang(GIP), Geungsonojukwhan-Pejukbang(LUP) and Geungsonojukwhan-Sinjukbang(RTP). 3. As a result of exposure to Geungsonojukwhan, GIP showed better anticancer effect to HCT-15 cell lines than those of LUP and RTP. 4. The extract of Geungsonojukwhan-Bijukbang in 40℃ were more effective in cytotoxic response than those in 100℃. 5. The research showed that the higher concentration the more effective in the inhibition of proliferation of the cancer cell lines, however, the cytotoxic effect of Geungsonojukwhan-Bijukbang in the concentration of 1.60㎎/㎖ and 3.20㎎/㎖ showed the most effective inhibition rate according to the increase of concentration.

Background: Inula japonica Thunb. is a plant belonging to the family compositae. Inulae flos (flower of I. britannica var. chinensis Regal.) is the dried flower of I. japonica Thunb. and contains various flavonoids (patulitrin, nepitrin and kaempferol), which have been utilized in traditional oriental medicine to treat nausea, phlegm, and coughs. However, ethanol extract of I. britannica (IJE) has not been previously studied for its use in cancer treatment, and its effects on oxidative stress, or inflammation. Thus, the present study investigated the anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory, and anti-colorectal cancer effects of IJE using RAW264.7 and HCT- 116 cells, which are human colorectal cancer cell line. Methods and Results: IJE contained flavonoids (80.95 ± 5.3 ㎎/g) and polyphenols (310.53 ± 10.6 ㎎/g). Moreover, it reduced lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced nitric oxide (NO) production and H2O2-induced oxidative stress by decreasing reactive oxygen species (ROS) levels. Additionally, the 500 ㎍/㎖ IJE treatment increased caspase-3 activity and apoptotic cell death in HCT-116 cells. Conclusions: These results demonstrate that the anti-cancer effect of IJE against human colorectal cancer cells involves caspase-3 activation and apoptotic cell death. IJE also inhibited LPS-induced NO production, and H2O2-induced oxidative stress in RAW264.7 cells. However, further studies are required to explore how IJE treatment regulates signal transduction in NO and ROS production.

버려지는 마늘껍질의 자원으로써의 활용 가치를 확인하기 위해 마늘껍질 70% 에탄올 추출물(GPE)을 이용하여 인체에서 유래된 폐암 세포(A549), 위암 세포(AGS), 유방암 세포(MCF-7), 간암 세포(Hep3B) 및 대장암 세포(HT-29)의 생존율에 미치는 영향을 확인하였다. 폐암 세포(A549)의 경우 200 μg/mL의 저 농도에서는 A549 세포의 생존율이 100%로 증식 억제 효과가 나타나지 않았으나 500 μg/mL 이상의 농도에서는 A549 세포의 생존율이 10% 이하로 떨어지면서 우수한 폐암 세포 증식 억제 활성이 확인되었다. 위암 세포에 대한 조사에서는 1,000 μg/mL의 농도에서 55%의 생존율을 확인할 수 있었고, 최고 2,000 μg/mL의 농도에서 71%의 위암 세포 증식 억제활성이 확인되었다. 유방암 세포(MCF-7)의 경우 200 μg/mL의 저 농도에서 78%, 500 μg/mL 이상의 농도 처리 결과에서는 모두 90% 전후의 유방암 세포 증식 억제활성이 확인되었다. 간암 세포의 경우 100 μg/mL의 저 농도에서도 57%의 억제 활성이 확인되어, GPE의 매우 우수한 간암 세포 증식 억제 활성이 확인되었고, 처리되는 GPE의 농도가 증가함에 따라 500 μg/mL 농도까지 농도 의존적으로 간암 세포에 대한 증식 억제 활성은 증가되어 간암 세포의 생존율이 13%까지 저하되었다. 대장암 세포(HT-29)의 경우 200 μg/mL의 저 농도 처리에서 15%, 500 μg/mL 농도 처리에서 85%, 1,000 μg/mL의 고농도 처리에서 93%의 간암세포 증식 억제율이 확인되었으며, 농도 의존적으로 간암 세포에 대한 생장 억제 효과가 있는 것으로 확인되었다. 이상의 결과를 종합해 볼 때 마늘껍질 70% 에탄올 추출물 GPE는 조사된 제일 낮은 농도(100 μg/mL)에서도 간암 세포의 증식을 57% 억제하는 우수한 활성이 확인되었고, 200 μg/mL의 저 농도 범위에서는 유방암과 간암 세포의 증식을 72-78% 억제하는 높은 활성이 확인되었으며, 500 μg/mL 이상의 농도에서는 위암 세포를 제외한 조사된 4종류의 암세포(폐암, 유방암, 간암 및 대장암 세포)의 증식을 85-90% 억제하는 우수한 활성이 확인되었다. 본 연구의 결과를 통해 마늘 가공 과정에서 쓰레기로 버려지고 있는 마늘껍질은 70% 에탄올 추출을 통해 유방암(MCF-7), 폐암(A549), 위암(AGS), 유방암(MCF-7) 및 간암(Hep3B) 세포의 성장을 억제하는 활성 물질로서의 재활용 가치가 높은 것으로 확인되었다.

본 연구는 괴경 내부에 적색 및 보라색의 안토시아닌 색소를 함유한 유색감자의 추출물을 대상으로 S. typhimurium TA98과 TA100 균주의 돌연변이 유발여부를 확인하였고, 직접돌연변이원인 4-nitroquinoline-1-oxide(4-NQO)와 간접 돌연변이원인 bozo(a)pyrene(BaP)에 의해 유발될 수 있는 돌연변이에 대한 항돌연변이 활성과 6종의 인간 암세포주(전립선암세포주: LNCaP, 결장암 세포주: HCT-15와 SW-620, 위암 세포주: ACHN, 폐암 세포주: A549, 백혈병 세포주: MOLT-4F)를 대상으로 SRB 방법을 이용하여 항암활성을 비교하였다. 그 결과 유색감자 중 괴경 내부에 보라색의 안토시아닌을 다량 함유한 자영 품종이 다른 품종에 비해 높은 수준의 항돌연변이활성 및 항암활성을 나타내었으며, 특히 자영 품종의 추출물은 다른 세포주 보다 전립선암 세포주에 대한 항암활성이 특이적으로 우수한 양상을 확인하였다. 자영 품종의 추출물은 5ug/mL 이상의 농도에서 암세포의 증식을 억제할 뿐 아니라, 전립선암 세포주 LNCaP와 PC-3에 대해 세포사멸을 유발하는 결과를 Cell Death Detection ELISA와 TUNEL Assay로 확인하였고, 세포사멸과 연관된 유전자의 발현분석을 western blot으로 확인하였다. 이상의 결과에서 괴경 내부에 안토시아닌을 함유한 유색감자는 괴경 내부의 색상이 백색인 일반감자에 비해 강한 항돌연변이활성 및 항암활성을 나타내므로 유색감자는 기능성이 증대된 식용감자로서의 이용가치가 충분하며, 유색감자를 이용한 기능성식품 소재개발 및 의료산업의 신규소재화가 가능하리라 판단된다.

강원도 산지에서 채취한 만병초 잎의 70% ethanol 추출물과 다른 유기용매 분획 과정을 통한 3가지의 분획물에 대한 in vitro에서의 정상세포에 대한 세포독성과 유전독성, 여러 암세포에 대한 항암 기능, 면역세포에 대한 면역기능 등을 조사하여 다음과 같은 결과를 얻었다 1. 만병초 잎의 EtOH 추출물과 각 용매 분획물 들의 사람의 정상 세포인 HEL 299와 Chang에 대한 세포 독성을 SRB assay로 측정한 결과, 대부분의 시료 0.5 mg/ml 이하의 농도에서 35% 이하의 세포 독성이 나타났다. 2. 만병초 잎의 70% EtOH 추출물 및 각 다른 용매 분획물만 처리한 정상 세포에 대한 유전독성을 comet assay에서 측정한 결과, 양성 대조구 (10-2M, H2O2)과 비교시, 가장 높은 농도인 1 mg/ml의 농도에서 1/3 이하의 낮은 DNA damage가 관찰되었다. 이것은 세포독성과 관련하여 대부분의 각 시료가 세포 DNA에 대하여 매우 약한 손상만 일으키는 것이 확인되었다. 3. 사람의 암세포에 대한 SRB 및 MTT assay를 이용한 만병초의 잎의 모든 시료의 1 mg/ml의 농도의 70% EtOH의 추출물은 실험대상인 모든 사람의 암세포에 대하여 80% 이상의 항암 기능을, EtOAc fr.는 모든 암세포에 대하여 가장 높은 농도인 1 mg/ml에서 70% 이상의 높은 억제 활성이 보인 결과로 부터 유효한 성분이 역시 EtOAc fr.에 함유되어 있을 것을 시사하였다. 4. 만병초 잎 추출물의 면역세포 생육에 대한 조사에서 사람의 B-cell과 T-cell에 대하여 0.5 mg/ml의 농도에서 배양 3일째에 BuOH fr.에서 대조구와 비교시 1.6배 정도의 생육 촉진활성을 보였다. 5. SCGE를 통해 H2O2로 유도된 산화적 손상에 대한 만병초 잎 추출물과 분획물들의 유전독성 억제 기능은 EtOAc fr.이 100 μg/ml 농도에서 대조구 대비 68.5%의 가장 높은 산화손상 억제율을 보였으며 BuOH fr.에서도 강한 유전독성 억제기능이 있음이 확인되었다. 그러나 수용액 분획은 매우 약한 유전독성 억제 활성을 보여 각 분획의 특성이 다양함을 알 수 있었다.