Description
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
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.
