Betulinic Acid
Induces mitochondrial permeability pore opening / Natural Lupane triterpenoid from white birch tree (Betula pubescens). Induces apoptosis in a variety of cell lines.1 Induces mitochondrial permeability transition pore opening.2 Acts as a chemosensitizer for anticancer drug treatment in chemoresistant colon cancer cell lines.3 Cell permeable.
Biochemicals & reagents
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1) Ehrhardt et al. (2004) Betulinic acid-induced apoptosis in leukemia cells; Leukemia, 18 1406 2) Mullauer et al. (2009) Betulinic acid induces cytochrome c release and apoptosis in Bax/Bak-independent, permeability transition pore dependent fashion.; Apoptosis, 14 191 3) Jung et al. (2007) Effect of betulinic acid on anticancer drug-resistant colon cancer cells; Basic Clin. Pharmacol. Toxicol., 101 277
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PATHWAY: Apoptosis inducer; Mitochondrial function; AMPK pathway; mTOR -- RESEARCH AREA: Cell death -- DISEASE AREA: Cancer; DiabetesLiver disease; Atherosclerosis