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Chemical Assessment and Anticancer Activity Study of Diverse Marine Organisms From Red Sea Riviera

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Abstract

The chemical investigation and in vitro cytotoxic, caspase and apoptotic activities of extracts/n-hexane fractions of eleven diverse marine organisms, collected from the Red Sea at the Egyptian coasts, were studied against the human hepatocarcinoma (HepG2). The organisms were identified as Thalassia hemprichii [SP1], Sargassum arnaudianum [SP2], Echinodictyum flabelliforme [SP3], Dendronephthya hemprichi [SP4], Rumphella sp. [SP5], Iotrochota purpurea [SP6], un-identified [SP7], Sarcophyton glaucum [SP8] and Sarcophyton sp. [SP9]), Ircinia sp. [SP10] and Ircinia echinate [SP11]). Phytochemical profiling by GC-MS analysis of the hexane components obtained from the eleven organisms revealed their unique diversities, reporting altogether 114 divers compounds. According to anticancer profiling the n-hexane fractions of the reported organisms showed diverse potent cytotoxicity against HepG2: the soft coral Dendronephthya hemprichi [SP4] showed cytotoxic activity at IC50 = 25 and 12.5 µg/mL after 24 and 48 h, respectively, meanwhile the sponge [SP6] showed less cytotoxicity of IC50 = 100 and 50 µg/mL after 24 and 48 h, respectively), accompanied with moderate induction of non-apoptotic caspase-activity. The unidentified soft coral [SP7] had time-independent cytotoxicity (IC50= 20 µg/mL) after 24 and 48 h, accompanied with high-induction of caspase–dependent early apoptosis. Sarcophyton glaucum [SP8] was potentially cytotoxic (IC50= 12.5 µg/ml after 24) without induction of caspase-activity or apoptosis, meanwhile the soft coral [SP9] showed induction of caspase–independent apoptosis. Finally, the brown alga [SP2] showed high induction of non-apoptotic caspase-activity after 48 h. This recognized the high potentiality of the marine organisms, [SP2], [SP4], [SP7], [SP8] and [SP9] as talented sources of drug leads with significant biological activities, encouraging our future research planning to isolate and structurally identify such corresponding potentially active compounds.

DOI

10.21608/ejchem.2022.140095.6163

Keywords

Diverse Marine Organisms, Red Sea, GC-MS analysis, Cytotoxicity, apoptosis, Hepatocellular carcinoma

Authors

First Name

Amal

Last Name

Hassan

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Z

Affiliation

Chemistry of Natural Compounds Department, Pharmaceutical and Drug Industries Research Institute, National Research Centre, El-Behoos St. 33, Dokki-Cairo 12622, Egypt

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az.hassan1970@gmail.com

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Cairo

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First Name

Ali

Last Name

El-Hagrassi

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M

Affiliation

Department of Phytochemistry and plant Systematics, Pharmaceutical and Drug Industries Research Institute, National Research Centre, El-Behoos St. 33, Dokki-Cairo 12622, Egypt

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alielhagrasi@gmail.com

City

Cairo

Orcid

-

First Name

Sohair

Last Name

Salem

MiddleName

M

Affiliation

Molecular Genetics and Enzymology Department, National Research Centre El-Behoos St. 33, Dokki-Cairo 12622, Egypt

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ssalem_nrc@hotmail.com

City

Cairo

Orcid

0000-0001-6811-431X

First Name

Hanaa

Last Name

Rady

MiddleName

M

Affiliation

Chemistry of Natural Compounds Department, Pharmaceutical and Drug Industries Research Institute, National Research Centre, El-Behoos St. 33, Dokki-Cairo 12622, Egypt

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hanaamahrous@yahoo.com

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Cairo

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-

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Shaaban

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-

Affiliation

Chemistry of Natural Products, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt.

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mshaaba@gmail.com

City

Cairo

Orcid

0000-0001-9281-2505

Volume

65

Article Issue

131

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37459

Issue Date

2022-12-01

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2022-05-25

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2022-12-01

Page Start

1,567

Page End

1,578

Print ISSN

0449-2285

Online ISSN

2357-0245

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244,313

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297

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Egyptian Journal of Chemistry

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/

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Chemical Assessment and Anticancer Activity Study of Diverse Marine Organisms From Red Sea Riviera

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Created At

30 Dec 2024