Plumbagin (5-hydroxy-2-methyl-1,4-naphthoquinone) suppresses NF-kappaB activation and NF-kappaB-regulated gene products through modulation of p65 and IkappaBalpha kinase activation, leading to potentiation of apoptosis induced by cytokine and chemotherapeutic agents.

The Journal of Biological Chemistry
Santosh K SandurBharat B Aggarwal

Abstract

Plumbagin, derived from the medicinal plant Plumbago zeylanica, modulates cellular proliferation, carcinogenesis, and radioresistance, all known to be regulated by the activation of the transcription factor NF-kappaB, suggesting plumbagin might affect the NF-kappaB activation pathway. We found that plumbagin inhibited NF-kappaB activation induced by TNF, and other carcinogens and inflammatory stimuli (e.g. phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate, H2O2, cigarette smoke condensate, interleukin-1beta, lipopolysaccharide, and okadaic acid). Plumbagin also suppressed the constitutive NF-kappaB activation in certain tumor cells. The suppression of NF-kappaB activation correlated with sequential inhibition of the tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-induced activation of IkappaBalpha kinase, IkappaBalpha phosphorylation, IkappaBalpha degradation, p65 phosphorylation, p65 nuclear translocation, and the NF-kappaB-dependent reporter gene expression activated by TNF, TNFR1, TRAF2, NIK, IKK-beta, and the p65 subunit of NF-kappaB. Plumbagin also suppressed the direct binding of nuclear p65 and recombinant p65 to the DNA, and this binding was reversed by dithiothreitol both in vitro and in vivo. However, plumbagin did not inhibit p65 binding to DNA when cell...Continue Reading

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