title: Anticancer activity evaluation of kuanoniamines A and C isolated from the marine sponge Oceanapia sagittaria, collected from the Gulf of Thailand.
abstract: The pyridoacridine alkaloids kuanoniamines A and C were isolated together with 24 alpha-methylcholestanol, p-hydroxybenzaldehyde, p-hydroxybenzoic acid, phenylacetic acid and 3-formylindole from the ethyl acetate extract of the marine sponge Oceanapia sagittaria (Sollas), collected from the Gulf of Thailand. Kuanoniamines A and C were evaluated for their effect on the growth of five human tumour and a non-tumour cell lines, as well as on the proliferation of human lymphocytes. Kuanoniamine A was found to be a potent growth inhibitor of all the tumour and a non-tumour cell lines while kuanoniamine C was less potent but showed high selectivity toward the estrogen dependent (ER+) breast cancer cell line. Kuanoniamine A has shown to be a more potent inhibitor of DNA synthesis than kuanoniamine C. Kuanoniamine A was also found to cause an extensive reduction of the MCF-7 cells in G2/M phase as well as an increase in the apoptotic cells.
authors.affiliation: ICBAS-Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Universidade do Porto, 4099-003 Porto, Portugal. ankijjoa@icbas.up.pt
authors.forename: Anake
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kijjoa
authors.forename: Rawiwan
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Wattanadilok
authors.forename: Nair
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Campos
authors.forename: Maria São José
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Nascimento
authors.forename: Madalena
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pinto
authors.forename: Werner
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Herz