Hyperforin Exhibits Antigenotoxic Activity on Human and Bacterial Cells
| Autor: | Petronela Imreova, Jana Feruszova, Stanislav Kyzek, Kristina Bodnarova, Martina Zduriencikova, Katarina Kozics, Pavel Mucaji, Eliska Galova, Andrea Sevcovicova, Eva Miadokova, Ivan Chalupa |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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| Zdroj: | Molecules, Vol 22, Iss 1, p 167 (2017) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 1420-3049 78428084 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/molecules22010167 |
| Popis: | Hyperforin (HF), a substance that accumulates in the leaves and flowers of Hypericum perforatum L. (St. John’s wort), consists of a phloroglucinol skeleton with lipophilic isoprene chains. HF exhibits several medicinal properties and is mainly used as an antidepressant. So far, the antigenotoxicity of HF has not been investigated at the level of primary genetic damage, gene mutations, and chromosome aberrations, simultaneously. The present work is designed to investigate the potential antigenotoxic effects of HF using three different experimental test systems. The antigenotoxic effect of HF leading to the decrease of primary/transient promutagenic genetic changes was detected by the alkaline comet assay on human lymphocytes. The HF antimutagenic effect leading to the reduction of gene mutations was assessed using the Ames test on the standard Salmonella typhimurium (TA97, TA98, and TA100) bacterial strains, and the anticlastogenic effect of HF leading to the reduction of chromosome aberrations was evaluated by the in vitro mammalian chromosome aberration test on the human tumor cell line HepG2 and the non-carcinogenic cell line VH10. Our findings provided evidence that HF showed antigenotoxic effects towards oxidative mutagen zeocin in the comet assay and diagnostic mutagen (4-nitroquinoline-1-oxide) in the Ames test. Moreover, HF exhibited an anticlastogenic effect towards benzo(a)pyrene and cisplatin in the chromosome aberration test. |
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