PMID- 17583950 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20070823 LR - 20191210 IS - 0163-3864 (Print) IS - 0163-3864 (Linking) VI - 70 IP - 7 DP - 2007 Jul TI - Abietane diterpenes from Salvia miltiorrhiza inhibit the activation of hypoxia-inducible factor-1. PG - 1093-7 AB - The hypoxia-inducible factor-1 (HIF-1) has been known to be correlated to the adaptation and proliferation of tumor cells; therefore HIF-1 has become an important target in the development of anticancer drugs. A phytochemical study of the CHCl3-soluble fraction of Salvia miltiorrhiza, which strongly inhibited hypoxia-induced reporter gene expression, led to the isolation of 12 abietane-type diterpenes. Of these compounds, sibiriquinone A (1), sibiriquinone B (2), cryptotanshinone (3), and dihydrotanshinone I (4) potently inhibited hypoxia-induced luciferase expression with IC50 values of 0.34, 3.36, 1.58, and 2.05 microM on AGS cells, a human gastric cancer cell line, and 0.28, 3.18, 1.36, and 2.29 microM on Hep3B cells, a human hepatocarcinoma cell line, respectively. Consistently, 1 and 4 dose-dependently suppressed the HIF-1alpha accumulation and 1 inhibited mRNA expression of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) under hypoxia. These results suggest that the anticancer activity of tanshinones is likely at least in part associated with their inhibition of HIF-1 accumulation. FAU - Dat, Nguyen Tien AU - Dat NT AD - Molecular Cancer Research Center, Korean Research Institute of Biosciences and Biotechnology, Daejeon 305-333, Korea. FAU - Jin, Xuejun AU - Jin X FAU - Lee, Jeong-Hyung AU - Lee JH FAU - Lee, Dongho AU - Lee D FAU - Hong, Young-Soo AU - Hong YS FAU - Lee, Kyeong AU - Lee K FAU - Kim, Young Ho AU - Kim YH FAU - Lee, Jung Joon AU - Lee JJ LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20070621 PL - United States TA - J Nat Prod JT - Journal of natural products JID - 7906882 RN - 0 (Abietanes) RN - 0 (Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic) RN - 0 (Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1) SB - IM MH - Abietanes/chemistry/*isolation & purification/*pharmacology MH - Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic/chemistry/*isolation & purification/*pharmacology MH - Dose-Response Relationship, Drug MH - Humans MH - Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1/*antagonists & inhibitors MH - Korea MH - Plants, Medicinal/*chemistry MH - Salvia miltiorrhiza/*chemistry MH - Tumor Cells, Cultured EDAT- 2007/06/23 09:00 MHDA- 2007/08/24 09:00 CRDT- 2007/06/23 09:00 PHST- 2007/06/23 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2007/08/24 09:00 [medline] PHST- 2007/06/23 09:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1021/np060482d [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Nat Prod. 2007 Jul;70(7):1093-7. doi: 10.1021/np060482d. Epub 2007 Jun 21.