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- Title
Effect of new antioxidant cysteinyl-flavanol conjugates on skin cancer cells
- Authors
Lozano, Carles; Torres, Josep Lluís; Julià, Lluís; Jimenez, Aurora; Centelles, Josep Joan; Cascante, Marta
- Abstract
Abstract: Novel catechin derivatives obtained from grape procyanidins and l-cysteine scavenge free radicals by hydrogen atom donation, rather than electron transfer, and reduce cell viability in A375 and M21 melanoma cells. In particular, 4β-(S-cysteinyl)epicatechin 3-O-gallate has a free radical scavenging capacity as strong as that of tea (−)-epigallocatechin gallate and causes a significant S-phase cell-cycle arrest in both cell lines at doses higher than 100μM. The other cysteinyl compounds do not affect normal cell cycle distribution. The gallate derivative also induces apoptosis in melanoma cells more strongly than the other derivatives and the parent (−)-epicatechin do. The gallate compound seems to trigger nuclear condensation and fragmentation, which is confirmed by DNA laddering. Interestingly, they do not induce apoptosis in keratinocytes (HaCaT).
- Subjects
CATECHIN; FREE radicals; CELL lines; KERATINOCYTES
- Publication
FEBS Letters, 2005, Vol 579, Issue 20, p4219
- ISSN
0014-5793
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1016/j.febslet.2005.06.051