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Special Issue "Natural Products for Anticancer Application"

A special issue of Pharmaceutics (ISSN 1999-4923). This special issue belongs to the section "Biopharmaceutics".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2024 | Viewed by 1810

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Alessandro Maugeri

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Department of Health Sciences, University "Magna Græcia" of Catanzaro, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy
Interests: natural products; molecular pharmacology; cancer; inflammation; neuroprotection
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Dr. Santa Cirmi

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Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, University of Messina, 98166 Messina, Italy
Interests: natural products; molecular pharmacology; cancer; inflammation; neuroprotection
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Prof. Dr. Michele Navarra

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Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, University of Messina, Viale Annunziata, I-98168 Messina, Italy
Interests: natural products; molecular pharmacology; cancer; inflammation; neuroprotection
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Prof. Dr. Thomas Efferth

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Department of Pharmaceutical Biology, Institute of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences, Johannes Gutenberg University, Staudinger Weg 5, 55128 Mainz, Germany
Interests: natural products; molecular pharmacology; cancer; drug resistance; genome-wide profiling
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to contribute an article to a Special Issue of Pharmaceutics called “Natural Products for Anticancer Application”.

Cancer still represents one of the most alarming burdens of our society, despite the unceasing advances achieved by the scientific community. Therefore, novel strategies able to prevent and/or manage neoplasms are constantly sought after to hamper their onset and development.

The plant kingdom has long been a remarkable source of countless chemical substances with noteworthy pharmacological properties, including anticancer ones. Natural remedies are now being consumed as part of a method for strengthening our defenses against cellular degeneration, eventually potentially leading to the initiation of cells into cancerous ones. Moreover, the possible synergism of components constituting them can be exploited to achieve stronger effects.

This Special Issue aims to assemble recent scientific evidence on the anticancer properties of natural products, both as single phytochemicals and phytocomplexes, after their complete qualiquantitative chemical characterization, studied in both preclinical and clinical settings.

In this Special Issue, original research articles, reviews systematic reviews, and meta-analyses are all welcome.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Alessandro Maugeri
Dr. Santa Cirmi
Prof. Dr. Michele Navarra
Prof. Dr. Thomas Efferth
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Pharmaceutics is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2900 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • natural products
  • cancer
  • plant extracts
  • phytochemicals
  • preclinical
  • clinical

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The Novel Artemisinin Dimer Isoniazide ELI-XXIII-98-2 Induces c-MYC Inhibition, DNA Damage, and Autophagy in Leukemia Cells
by
Mohamed Elbadawi
,
Joelle C. Boulos
,
Mona Dawood
,
Min Zhou
,
Waseem Gul
,
Mahmoud A. ElSohly
,
Sabine M. Klauck
and
Thomas Efferth
Pharmaceutics 2023, 15(4), 1107; https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmaceutics15041107 - 30 Mar 2023
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The proto-oncogenic transcription factor c-MYC plays a pivotal role in the development of tumorigenesis, cellular proliferation, and the control of cell death. Its expression is frequently altered in many cancer types, including hematological malignancies such as leukemia. The dimer isoniazide ELI-XXIII-98-2 is a [...] Read more.
The proto-oncogenic transcription factor c-MYC plays a pivotal role in the development of tumorigenesis, cellular proliferation, and the control of cell death. Its expression is frequently altered in many cancer types, including hematological malignancies such as leukemia. The dimer isoniazide ELI-XXIII-98-2 is a derivative of the natural product artemisinin, with two artemisinin molecules and an isoniazide moiety as a linker in between them. In this study, we aimed to study the anticancer activity and the molecular mechanisms of this dimer molecule in drug-sensitive CCRF-CEM leukemia cells and their corresponding multidrug-resistant CEM/ADR5000 sub-line. The growth inhibitory activity was studied using the resazurin assay. To reveal the molecular mechanisms underlying the growth inhibitory activity, we performed in silico molecular docking, followed by several in vitro approaches such as the MYC reporter assay, microscale thermophoresis, microarray analyses, immunoblotting, qPCR, and comet assay. The artemisinin dimer isoniazide showed a potent growth inhibitory activity in CCRF-CEM but a 12-fold cross-resistance in multidrug-resistant CEM/ADR5000 cells. The molecular docking of artemisinin dimer isoniazide with c-MYC revealed a good binding (lowest binding energy of −9.84 ± 0.3 kcal/mol) and a predicted inhibition constant (pKi) of 66.46 ± 29.5 nM, which was confirmed by microscale thermophoresis and MYC reporter cell assays. Furthermore, c-MYC expression was downregulated by this compound in microarray hybridization and Western blotting analyses. Finally, the artemisinin dimer isoniazide modulated the expression of autophagy markers (LC3B and p62) and the DNA damage marker pH2AX, indicating the stimulation of both autophagy and DNA damage, respectively. Additionally, DNA double-strand breaks were observed in the alkaline comet assay. DNA damage, apoptosis, and autophagy induction could be attributed to the inhibition of c-MYC by ELI-XXIII-98-2. Full article
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