Anti-tumor-promoting activities of euglobals from Eucalyptus plants

Biol Pharm Bull. 1995 Mar;18(3):435-8. doi: 10.1248/bpb.18.435.

Abstract

To search for possible anti-tumor-promoters (chemopreventive agents), we carried out a primary screening of 21 euglobals (acylphloroglucinol-monoterpene or -sesquiterpene structures) isolated from the juvenile leaves of five species of Eucalyptus plants using an in vitro synergistic assay system. Of these compounds, euglobal-G1--G5 (1-5), -Am-2 (15) and -III (16) exhibited significant inhibitory effects on Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) activation induced by the tumor promoter, 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA). Furthermore, the effects of compounds 1 and 16 on the cell cycle of Raji cells were also examined by a flow cytometer, and both compounds 1 and 16 exhibited strong inhibition on the effect of the cell cycle induced by TPA. These two euglobals (1 and 16) exhibited remarkable anti-tumor-promoting effects on mouse skin tumor promotion in an in vivo two-stage carcinogenesis test.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study

MeSH terms

  • 9,10-Dimethyl-1,2-benzanthracene / toxicity
  • Animals
  • Anticarcinogenic Agents / therapeutic use*
  • Antigens, Viral / drug effects
  • Antigens, Viral / physiology
  • Burkitt Lymphoma / virology
  • Cell Cycle / drug effects
  • Cocarcinogenesis
  • Drug Screening Assays, Antitumor
  • Eucalyptus / chemistry*
  • Female
  • Mice
  • Mice, Inbred ICR
  • Papilloma / chemically induced
  • Papilloma / prevention & control*
  • Papilloma / virology
  • Plant Extracts / therapeutic use*
  • Plants, Medicinal*
  • Skin Neoplasms / chemically induced
  • Skin Neoplasms / prevention & control*
  • Skin Neoplasms / virology
  • Structure-Activity Relationship
  • Terpenes / therapeutic use*
  • Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate / toxicity
  • Tumor Cells, Cultured

Substances

  • Anticarcinogenic Agents
  • Antigens, Viral
  • Epstein-Barr virus early antigen
  • Plant Extracts
  • Terpenes
  • 9,10-Dimethyl-1,2-benzanthracene
  • Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate