Mahanine, a carbazole alkaloid (occurs in the edible part of Micromelum minutum, Murraya koenigii and related species), is a DNA minor groove binding agent with potent anticancer activity. Mahanine down regulates cell survival factors by activation of caspase-3 through mitochondrial dependent pathway. Mahanine was found to inhibit growth of PC3 and LNCaP prostate cancer cells in a dose and time-dependent manner. Mechanistically, mahanine inhibited cell-survival pathway by dephosphorylation of PIP3 dependent kinase 1 (PDK1) thereby deactivation of Akt and downregulation of Bcl-xL. In addition, mahanine activated caspase pathway (caspases 9 and 3) and eventually cleavage of DNA repair enzyme, PARP resulting DNA fragmentation and apoptosis. References: Samanta SK, Dutta D, Roy S, Bhattacharya K, Sarkar S, Dasgupta AK, Pal BC, Mandal C, Mandal C. Mahanine, A DNA Minor Groove Binding Agent Exerts Cellular Cytotoxicity with Involvement of C-7-OH and -NH Functional Groups. J Med Chem. 2013 Jul 5. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 23829449.

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