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ArticleJournal of cancer research and clinical oncology2024

Evaluating the effects of various ethanolic medicinal plant extracts on metastatic breast cancer proliferation, invasion, and expression of a novel potential drug target; CD82 metastatic suppressor protein, and on in vivo angiogenesis using the ex ovo yolk sac membrane (YSM) assay.

Samantha Loggenberg, Danielle Twilley, Namrita Lall

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Article in Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Samantha LoggenbergDepartment of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, 0002, South Africa.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8521-9463
Danielle TwilleyDepartment of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, 0002, South Africa.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6701-5547
Namrita LallDepartment of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, 0002, South Africa. namrita.lall@up.ac.za.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3242-3476

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Department of Science and Technology, Republic of South Africa DST Project/con/165/2010National Research Foundation 136195Technology Innovation Agency, South Africa TIA TBS12-0001-OC
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purposeBreast cancer metastasis relies on cellular invasion and angiogenesis facilitated by the downregulation of metastatic suppressor proteins like Cluster of Differentiation 82 (CD82). Currently, no medicines target multiple systems to prevent metastatic progression through CD82 upregulation. This study screened for plant extracts displaying effects on cell proliferation, invasion, and CD82 expression in breast cancer cells, and in vivo angiogenesis, and further correlated between the biological activities and effect on CD82 expression.

methodsSeventeen ethanolic plant extracts were screened for their effect on cell proliferation (against MDA-MB-231 and MCF-7 breast cancer and Hek293 kidney cells), cell invasion and effect on CD82 expression in metastatic MDA-MB-231 cells. Selected extracts were further evaluated for in vivo anti-angiogenesis.

resultsExtracts displayed varying antiproliferative activity against the different cell lines, and those that showed selectivity indexes (SI) > 0.5 against MDA-MB-231 were selected for anti-invasion evaluation. Buddleja saligna Willd. (BS), Combretum apiculatum Sond. (CA), Foeniculum vulgare, Greyia radlkoferi, Gunnera perpensa and Persicaria senegalensis (Meisn.) Soják (PS) displayed 50% inhibitory concentration (IC

conclusionBS exhibits antiproliferative, anti-invasive, and anti-angiogenic activity despite inhibiting CD82, suggesting an alternative mode of action. CA at 20 µg/mL shows moderate anti-invasive and anti-angiogenic potential by stimulating CD82, while at 40 µg/mL it still displays these properties but inhibits CD82, suggesting an additional mode of action. PS, with the least antiproliferative activity, stimulates CD82 and inhibits angiogenesis at 20 µg/mL but inhibits CD82 and increases angiogenesis at 40 µg/mL, indicating CD82 targeting as a major mode of action. Future studies should explore breast cancer xenograft models to assess the extracts' impact on CD82 expression and angiogenesis in the tumor microenvironment, along with isolating bioactive compounds from the extracts.

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Breast NeoplasmsCell ProliferationKangai-1 ProteinNeoplasm InvasivenessNeovascularization, PathologicPlant ExtractsAngiogenesisAnimalsCell Line, TumorChick EmbryoChorioallantoic MembraneEthanolFemaleHEK293 CellsHumansNeoplasm MetastasisCD82 protein, humanEthanolKangai-1 ProteinPlant ExtractsBuddleja saligna Willd.CD82 metastatic suppressor proteinCombretum apiculatum Sond.Metastatic breast cancerPersicaria senegalensis (Meisn.) SojákTumour angiogenesis

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