Comparision of piceid and resveratrol in antioxidation and antiproliferation activities in vitro.
BACKGROUND
The clinic therapeutic effect of resveratrol is limited due to its low oral bioavailability. Piceid, a precursor of resveratrol, is the most abundant form of resveratrol in nature. A number of studies have hypothesized that piceid may have the same bioactivities like those of resveratrol. The aim of this work is to compare piceid with resveratrol in antioxidation and antiproliferation activities in vitro.


METHODS
The antioxidative effects of resveratrol and piceid were evaluated by phenanthroline-Fe²⁺ method and H₂O₂-induced oxidative injury cell model. The antiproliferation effects were determined by MTT method in human liver tumor HepG2 cells, human breast cancer MDA-MB-231 cells and MCF-7 cells. The effects of resveratrol and piceid on the cell cycle and the apoptosis were evaluated by flow cytometry. Additionally, the uptake profiles of resveratrol and piceid in cancer cells were observed using fluorescence microscopy and clarified by LC-MS/MS.


CONCLUSIONS
Piceid exhibited higher scavenging activity against hydroxyl radicals than resveratrol in vitro. Resveratrol showed a significant protective effect against H₂O₂-induced cell damage. What is more, resveratrol had biphasic effects on tumor cells. Resveratrol and piceid only showed significant cytotoxicity on tumor cells at high concentration (≥50 µmol/L), while low concentration of resveratrol (<30 µmol/L) increased the cell viability. The principal effect of resveratrol and piceid on the viability of tumor cells was caused by the cell cycle arrest, while the effect on apoptosis was relatively minor. The reason that piceid showed lower biological activity than resveratrol at the same concentration was probably because piceid was more difficult in being uptaken by cells.
Department of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmacy, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, People's Republic of China.
Dan
D
Su
Ying
Y
Cheng
Miao
M
Liu
Daozhou
D
Liu
Han
H
Cui
Bangle
B
Zhang
Siyuan
S
Zhou
Tiehong
T
Yang
Qibing
Q
Mei
D000975:Antioxidants / Q000737:chemistry / Q000494:pharmacology*; D045744:Cell Line, Tumor; D049109:Cell Proliferation / Q000187:drug effects; D005960:Glucosides / Q000494:pharmacology*; D056945:Hep G2 Cells; D006801:Humans; D000077185:Resveratrol; D013267:Stilbenes / Q000494:pharmacology*
D000975:Antioxidants; D005960:Glucosides; D013267:Stilbenes; D000077185:Resveratrol; C058229:polydatin