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ArticleAging2020

Mimetics of extra virgin olive oil phenols with anti-cancer stem cell activity.

Elisabet Cuyàs, Juan Gumuzio, Jesús Lozano-Sánchez, Antonio Segura-Carretero, Sara Verdura, Joaquim Bosch-Barrera, Begoña Martin-Castillo, Alfons Nonell-Canals, Amadeu Llebaria, Silvia Cabello and 4 more

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Article in Aging, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 51% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. The Olive PhenolicCancers · 2025
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  3. Biological Activities of Molecules Derived fromLife (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

Elisabet CuyàsProgram Against Cancer Therapeutic Resistance (ProCURE), Metabolism and Cancer Group, Catalan Institute of Oncology, Girona, Spain.
Juan GumuzioStemTek Therapeutics, Bilbao, Spain.
Jesús Lozano-SánchezResearch and Development of Functional Food Centre (CIDAF), Granada, Spain.
Antonio Segura-CarreteroResearch and Development of Functional Food Centre (CIDAF), Granada, Spain.
Sara VerduraProgram Against Cancer Therapeutic Resistance (ProCURE), Metabolism and Cancer Group, Catalan Institute of Oncology, Girona, Spain.
Joaquim Bosch-BarreraGirona Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBGI), Girona, Spain.
Begoña Martin-CastilloGirona Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBGI), Girona, Spain.
Alfons Nonell-CanalsMind the Byte, Barcelona, Spain.
Amadeu LlebariaMCS, Laboratory of Medicinal Chemistry and Synthesis, Institute of Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia (IQAC-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain.
Silvia CabelloSIMChem, Synthesis of High Added Value Molecules, Institute of Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia (IQAC-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain.
Carme SerraMCS, Laboratory of Medicinal Chemistry and Synthesis, Institute of Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia (IQAC-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain.
Melchor Sanchez-MartinezMind the Byte, Barcelona, Spain.
Ángel G MartinStemTek Therapeutics, Bilbao, Spain.
Javier A MenendezProgram Against Cancer Therapeutic Resistance (ProCURE), Metabolism and Cancer Group, Catalan Institute of Oncology, Girona, Spain.
Institut Català d'Oncologia · ESInstitute of Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia · ESUniversidad de Granada · ESCatalan Institute for Water Research · ESInstitut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Girona · ES

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) dihydroxy-phenol oleacein is a natural inhibitor of multiple metabolic and epigenetic enzymes capable of suppressing the functional traits of cancer stem cells (CSC). Here, we used a natural product-inspired drug discovery approach to identify new compounds that phenotypically mimic the anti-CSC activity of oleacein. We coupled 3D quantitative structure-activity relationship-based virtual profiling with phenotypic analysis using 3D tumorsphere formation as a gold standard for assessing the presence of CSC. Among the top 20 computationally-predicted oleacein mimetics, four fulfilled the phenotypic endpoint of specifically suppressing the tumorsphere-initiating capacity of CSC, in the absence of significant cytotoxicity against differentiated cancer cells growing in 2D cultures in the same low micromolar concentration range. Of these, 3,4-dihydrophenetyl butyrate -a lipophilic ester conjugate of the hydroxytyrosol moiety of oleacein- and

Indexed as

Antineoplastic AgentsBiomimetic MaterialsBreast NeoplasmsCell Line, TumorDNA (Cytosine-5-)-MethyltransferasesDNA Methyltransferase 3ADrug DiscoveryHumansNeoplastic Stem CellsOlive OilPhenolsTOR Serine-Threonine KinasesAntineoplastic AgentsDNA (Cytosine-5-)-MethyltransferasesDNA Methyltransferase 3ADNMT3A protein, humanMTOR protein, humanOlive OilPhenolsTOR Serine-Threonine KinasesDNMTepigeneticsmetabolismmTORolive oil

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PMID33168787
PMCPMC7695371
OpenAlexW3096558110

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