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Effects of Natural Products on Mcl-1 Expression and Function

Florian Muller, Claudia Cerella, Flavia Radogna

  • 1College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University, Building 29 Room 233, 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak- gu, Seoul, 151-742, Korea. marcdiederich@snu.ac.kr.

Current Medicinal Chemistry
|July 17, 2015
PubMed

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Cancer cells resist apoptosis due to anti-apoptotic proteins like Mcl-1. This review explores natural compounds that inhibit these proteins, potentially restoring cancer cell death.

Area of Science:

  • Oncology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Pharmacology

Background:

  • Cancer development involves resistance to programmed cell death (apoptosis).
  • Overexpression of anti-apoptotic proteins, particularly Mcl-1, is a key mechanism of this resistance.
  • Targeting anti-apoptotic proteins is a strategy to restore cancer cell death.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review natural compound inhibitors targeting the Bcl-2 protein family.
  • To focus specifically on inhibitors of Mcl-1, a crucial anti-apoptotic protein in cancer.

Main Methods:

  • Literature review of natural pharmacological scaffolds.
  • Analysis of compounds inhibiting Bcl-2 family proteins, with emphasis on Mcl-1.
  • Synthesis of information on natural product-based anti-cancer strategies.

Main Results:

  • Identification of various natural compounds with inhibitory activity against Bcl-2 family proteins.
  • Highlighting Mcl-1 as a significant target for natural product-derived inhibitors.
  • Demonstrating the potential of natural scaffolds in overcoming cancer cell resistance.

Conclusions:

  • Natural compounds offer promising therapeutic avenues for targeting Mcl-1 and other anti-apoptotic proteins.
  • Inhibiting Mcl-1 with natural products can restore apoptosis in cancer cells.
  • Further research into these natural inhibitors could lead to novel cancer treatments.

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