Title:Jaceosidin: A Natural Flavone with Versatile Pharmacological and Biological Activities
Volume: 27
Issue: 4
Author(s): Bushra Nageen, Azhar Rasul*, Ghulam Hussain, Muhammad A. Shah*, Haseeb Anwar, Syed M. Hussain, Md. Sahab Uddin, Iqra Sarfraz, Ammara Riaz and Zeliha Selamoglu
Affiliation:
- Cell and Molecular Biology Lab, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Government College University, Faisalabad 38000,Pakistan
- Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Government College University, Faisalabad 38000,Pakistan
Keywords:
Jaceosidin, natural products, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-cancer, anti-mutagenic.
Abstract: Nature always remains an inexhaustible source of treasures for mankind. It remains a mystery for
every challenge until the completion of the challenge. While we talk about the complicated health issues, nature
offers us a great variety of chemical scaffolds and their various moieties packed in the form of natural products
e.g., plants, microorganisms (fungi, algae, protozoa), and terrestrial vertebrates and invertebrates. This review
article is an update about jaceosidin, a bioactive flavone, from genus Artemisia. This potentially active compound
exhibits a variety of pharmacological activities including anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant, anti-bacterial, antiallergic
and anti-cancer activities. The bioactivities and the therapeutic action of jaceosidin, especially the modulation
of different cell signaling pathways (ERK1/2, NF-κB, PI3K/Akt and ATM-Chk1/2) which become deregulated
in various pathological disorders, have been focused here. The reported data suggest that the bioavailability
of this anti-cancer compound should be enhanced by utilizing various chemical, biological and computational
techniques. Moreover, it is recommended that researchers and scientists should work on exploring the mode of
action of this particular flavone to precede it further as a potent anti-cancer compound.