[CAS NO. 10605-03-5]  Dehydrocorydaline chloride

Treatment of C2C12 myoblasts with 500 nM Dehydrocorydaline increases the expression levels of muscle-specific proteins, including MyoD, myogenin and myosin heavy chain. Treatment with Dehydrocorydaline elevates p38 MAPK activation and the interaction of MyoD with an E protein. Furthermore, defects in differentiation-induced p38 MAPK activation and myoblast differentiation induced by depletion of the promyogenic receptor protein Cdo in C2C12 myoblasts are restored by Dehydrocorydaline treatment ^[2] . Dehydrocorydaline significantly inhibits MCF-7 cell proliferation in a dose- dependent manner, which can be reversed by a caspase-8 inhibitor, Z-IETD-FMK. Dehydrocorydaline increases DNA fragments without affecting ΔΨm. Western blotting assay shows that dehydrocorydaline dose-dependently increases Bax protein expression and decreases Bcl-2 protein expression. Furthermore, dehydrocorydaline induces activation of caspase-7,-8 and the cleavage of PARP without affecting caspase-9. These results show that dehydrocorydaline inhibits MCF-7 cell proliferation by inducing apoptosis mediated by regulating Bax/Bcl-2, activating caspases as well as cleaving PARP ^[1] .

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