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Perilla frutescens is an Asian dietary herb consumed as an essential seasoning in Japanese cuisine as well as used for a Chinese medicine. Here, we report that a newly found methoxyflavanone derivative from P. frutescens (Perilla-derived methoxyflavanone, PDMF; 8-hydroxy-5,7-dimethoxyflavanone) shows carcinostatic activity on human lung adenocarcinoma, A549. We found that treatment with PDMF significantly inhibited cell proliferation and decreased viability through induction of G2/M cell cycle arrest and apoptosis. The PDMF stimulation induces phosphorylation of tumor suppressor p53 on Ser15, and increases its protein amount in conjunction with up-regulation of downstream cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor p21Cip1/Waf1 and proapoptotic caspases, caspase-9 and caspase-3. We also found that small interfering RNA knockdown of p53 completely abolished the PDMF-induced G2/M cell cycle arrest, and substantially abrogated its proapoptotic potency. These results suggest that PDMF represents a useful tumor-preventive phytochemical that triggers p53-driven G2/M cell cycle arrest and apoptosis.
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This work was financially supported by the Mishima Food Co., Ltd. N. Hirakawa and K. Baba are employees of the Mishima Food Co., Ltd. Abd El-Hafeez A. A. was supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology, MEXT, Japan.
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Abd El-Hafeez, A.A., Fujimura, T., Kamei, R. et al. A methoxyflavanone derivative from the Asian medicinal herb (Perilla frutescens) induces p53-mediated G2/M cell cycle arrest and apoptosis in A549 human lung adenocarcinoma. Cytotechnology 70, 899–912 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10616-017-0116-1
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