Sarcophine
Sarcophine is a marine cembranoid diterpene found in the Red Sea soft coral Sarcophyton glaucum. Sarcophine and its synthetic derivative, sarcophine-diol, exhibit chemopreventive activity. In vivo, sarcophine inhibits skin carcinogenesis induced by NOR-1 and TPA. Sarcophine also decreases membrane permeability towards Ca2+, increases degradation of PLA and PLC, and decreases levels of COX-2, inhibiting the tumor formation in melanoma models. In breast cancer and prostate cancer cell lines, sarcophine inhibits cell migration. Sarcophine may also inhibit phosphofructokinase.
References PubMed ID：:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18971448
| Cas No. |
55038-27-2 |
|---|---|
| Purity |
≥98% |
| Formula |
C20H28O3 |
| Formula Wt. |
316.43 |
| Appearance |
White Crystal |
Szymanski PT, Ahmed SA, Khalifa S, et al. Chemopreventive effect of sarcophine-diol on NOR-1-induced TPA-promoted skin carcinogenesis in female HOS:HR-1 mice. Nat Prod Commun. 2013 Feb;8(2):153-4. PMID: 23513714.
Szymanski PT, Muley P, Ahmed SA, et al. Sarcophine-diol inhibits expression of COX-2, inhibits activity of cPLA2, enhances degradation of PLA2 and PLC(γ)1 and inhibits cell membrane permeability in mouse melanoma B16F10 cells. Mar Drugs. 2012 Oct;10(10):2166-80. PMID: 23170076.
Hassan HM, Sallam AA, Mohammed R, et al. Semisynthetic analogues of the marine cembranoid sarcophine as prostate and breast cancer migration inhibitors. Bioorg Med Chem. 2011 Aug 15;19(16):4928-34. PMID: 21775154.
Erman A, Neéman I. Inhibition of phosphofructokinase by the toxic cembranolide sarcophine isolated from the soft-bodied coral Sarcophyton glaucum. Toxicon. 1977;15(3):207-15. PMID: 17178.
