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  • Title: Moscatilin repressed lipopolysaccharide-induced HIF-1alpha accumulation and NF-kappaB activation in murine RAW264.7 cells.
    Author: Liu YN, Pan SL, Peng CY, Huang DY, Guh JH, Chen CC, Shen CC, Teng CM.
    Journal: Shock; 2010 Jan; 33(1):70-5. PubMed ID: 19487987.
    Abstract:
    In the present study, we investigated the signaling pathways involved in the inhibition of cyclooxygenase 2 (COX-2) and iNOS by moscatilin under LPS challenge in murine macrophage-derived cell line RAW264.7. The results showed that moscatilin (10-100 microM) had a significant inhibition in a concentration-dependent manner on proinflammatory enzymes (COX-2 and iNOS) expression and macrophage activation under LPS (100 ng/mL) treatment. Hypoxia-inducible factor 1 (HIF-1)alpha was reported to initiate inflammation under cytokine stimulation or hypoxic conditions. In addition, the increase in transcriptional activity and translation process of HIF-1alpha under LPS stimulation resulted in HIF-1alpha accumulation. Moscatilin, a purified compound from Chinese herbs, had a dominant repression on HIF-1alpha expression via down regulating HIF-1alpha mRNA without inhibition of cell viability, translation machinery, or proteasome-mediated degradation of HIF-1alpha. Moreover, the results showed that moscatilin suppressed nuclear translocation of nuclear factor (NF)-kappaB subunits, p65 and p50, and NF-kappaB activity by inhibiting phosphorylation of inhibitor of kappaBalpha. Taken together, we demonstrated that moscatilin inhibited both COX-2 and iNOS expressions after LPS treatment in RAW264.7. Furthermore, the inhibition of moscatilin seemed to be dependent on the repression of HIF-1alpha accumulation and NF-kappaB activation.
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