Protein Information

Name cytochrome c
Synonyms CYC; CYCS; Cytochrome C; HCS; Cytochrome Cs

Compound Information

Name biphenyl
CAS 1,1′-biphenyl

Reference List

PubMed Abstract RScore(About this table)
18661240 Longpre JM, Loo G: Protection of human colon epithelial cells against deoxycholate by rottlerin. Apoptosis. 2008 Sep;13(9):1162-71.


In elucidating its mechansim, rottlerin prevented the release of cytochrome c from mitochondria into cytosol, and also prevented the cleavage of caspase-3.
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18369342 Yang JY, Della-Fera MA, Rayalam S, Baile CA: Enhanced effects of xanthohumol plus honokiol on apoptosis in 3T3-L1 adipocytes. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2008 Jun;16(6):1232-8. Epub 2008 Mar 27.


Expression of apoptosis related proteins including cleaved poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP), cytochrome c, Bcl-2, caspase-3/7, phosphatase and tensin homolog deleted on chromosome 10 (PTEN) and Akt was analyzed by western blotting.
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18435715 Hou Y, Li L, Wei H, Wu L, Tong Y, Wu S, Liu G: Protection by bicyclol derivatives against acetaminophen-induced acute liver failure in mice and its active mechanism. Liver Int. 2008 Nov;28(9):1226-35. Epub 2008 Apr 23.


Mitochondrial GSH and adenosine triphosphate (ATP) levels, cytochrome C and apoptosis-inducing factor (AIF) leakage, mitochondrial swelling and membrane potential were determined.
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18309326 Vogler M, Dinsdale D, Sun XM, Young KW, Butterworth M, Nicotera P, Dyer MJ, Cohen GM: A novel paradigm for rapid ABT-737-induced apoptosis involving outer mitochondrial membrane rupture in primary leukemia and lymphoma cells. Cell Death Differ. 2008 May;15(5):820-30. Epub 2008 Feb 29.


Primary chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) cells are exquisitely sensitive to ABT-737, a small molecule BCL2-antagonist, which induces many of the classical biochemical and ultrastructural features of apoptosis, including BAX/BAK oligomerization, cytochrome c release, caspase activation and chromatin condensation.
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19390557 Vogler M, Weber K, Dinsdale D, Schmitz I, Schulze-Osthoff K, Dyer MJ, Cohen GM: Different forms of cell death induced by putative BCL2 inhibitors. . Cell Death Differ. 2009 Jul;16(7):1030-9. Epub 2009 Apr 24.


Furthermore, investigations of the effects of these compounds in primary chronic lymphocytic leukemic cells showed that all compounds induced certain biochemical hallmarks of apoptosis, such as release of cytochrome c and caspase cleavage.
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19839062 Hikita H, Takehara T, Kodama T, Shimizu S, Hosui A, Miyagi T, Tatsumi T, Ishida H, Ohkawa K, Li W, Kanto T, Hiramatsu N, Hennighausen L, Yin XM, Hayashi N: BH3-only protein bid participates in the Bcl-2 network in healthy liver cells. Hepatology. 2009 Dec;50(6):1972-80.


Indeed, a small but significant level of tBid was present in wild-type liver under physiological conditions. tBid was capable of binding to Bcl-xL and displacing Bak and Bax from Bcl-xL, leading to release of cytochrome c from wild-type mitochondria.
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18507762 Deng J, Qian Y, Geng L, Chen J, Wang X, Xie H, Yan S, Jiang G, Zhou L, Zheng S: Involvement of p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway in honokiol-induced apoptosis in a human hepatoma cell line (hepG2). Liver Int. 2008 Dec;28(10):1458-64. Epub 2008 May 26.


Western blots were used to analyse the expression of various proteins (procaspase-9, procaspase-3, cleaved caspase-3, cytochrome c, Bcl-2, Bax, Bad, Bcl-X (L) and p38).
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19229860 Lee DH, Szczepanski MJ, Lee YJ: Magnolol induces apoptosis via inhibiting the EGFR/PI3K/Akt signaling pathway in human prostate cancer cells. J Cell Biochem. 2009 Apr 15;106(6):1113-22.


We also observed that during treatment with magnolol, translocation of Bax to the mitochondrial membrane occurred and the translocation was accompanied by cytochrome c release, and cleavage of procaspase-8, -9, -3, and poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP).
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18392951 Bao XQ, Liu GT: Bicyclol: a novel antihepatitis drug with hepatic heat shock protein 27/70-inducing activity and cytoprotective effects in mice. Cell Stress Chaperones. 2008 Sep;13(3):347-55. Epub 2008 Apr 8.


The prior administration of bicyclol markedly suppressed AP-induced liver injury as indicated by the reduction in the elevation of serum alanine aminotransferase and aspartate aminotransferase, in liver necrosis, in the release of cytochrome c and apoptosis-inducing factor from mitochondria, as well as in hepatic deoxyribonucleic acid fragmentation in mice.
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18641058 Jin YC, Kim KJ, Kim YM, Ha YM, Kim HJ, Yun UJ, Bae KH, Kim YS, Kang SS, Seo HG, Lee JH, Chang KC: Anti-apoptotic effect of magnolol in myocardial ischemia and reperfusion injury requires extracellular signal-regulated kinase1/2 pathways in rat in vivo. Exp Biol Med. 2008 Oct;233(10):1280-8. Epub 2008 Jul 18.


Apoptosis related events such as p-ERK, p-Bad, Bcl-xl and cytochrome c expression were evaluated by Western blot analysis and myocardial caspase-3 activity was also measured.
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19655415 Yao K, Zhang L, Ye PP, Tang XJ, Zhang YD: Protective effect of magnolol against hydrogen peroxide-induced oxidative stress in human lens epithelial cells. Am J Chin Med. 2009;37(4):785-96.


Magnolol inhibited the generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS), loss of mitochondrial membrane potential (Delta psi m) and release of cytochrome c from mitochondria caused by H2O2 into cytosol in HLE B-3 cells.
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17973573 Cragg MS, Kuroda J, Puthalakath H, Huang DC, Strasser A: Gefitinib-induced killing of NSCLC cell lines expressing mutant EGFR requires BIM and can be enhanced by BH3 mimetics. PLoS Med. 2007 Oct;4(10):1681-89; discussion 1690.


We found that gefitinib triggered intrinsic (also called "mitochondrial") apoptosis signaling, involving the activation of BAX and mitochondrial release of cytochrome c, ultimately unleashing the caspase cascade.
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19188336 Bao XQ, Liu GT: Induction of overexpression of the 27- and 70-kDa heat shock proteins by bicyclol attenuates concanavalin A-Induced liver injury through suppression of nuclear factor-kappaB in mice. Mol Pharmacol. 2009 May;75(5):1180-8. Epub 2009 Feb 2.


Oral administration of bicyclol markedly alleviated ConA-caused liver injury in mice as indicated by the reduction of serum aminotransferases, liver necrosis, and the release of cytochrome c and apoptosis-inducing factor from mitochondria and hepatic DNA fragmentation.
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18451169 Konopleva M, Watt J, Contractor R, Tsao T, Harris D, Estrov Z, Bornmann W, Kantarjian H, Viallet J, Samudio I, Andreeff M: Mechanisms of antileukemic activity of the novel Bcl-2 homology domain-3 mimetic GX15-070 (obatoclax). Cancer Res. 2008 May 1;68(9):3413-20.


We show that obatoclax can promote the release of cytochrome c from isolated leukemia cell mitochondria and that apoptosis induced by this agent is preceded by the release of Bak from Mcl-1, liberation of Bim from both Bcl-2 and Mcl-1, and the formation of an active Bak/Bax complex.
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18398104 Kang MH, Wan Z, Kang YH, Sposto R, Reynolds CP: Mechanism of synergy of N-(4-hydroxyphenyl) retinamide and ABT-737 in acute lymphoblastic leukemia cell lines: Mcl-1 inactivation. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2008 Apr 16;100(8):580-95. Epub 2008 Apr 8.


Changes in Bcl-2 family proteins and release of mitochondrial cytochrome c were detected by immunoblotting.
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19657189 Shin HC, Song DW, Baek WK, Lee SR, Kwon TK, Lee J, Park SH, Jang BC, Park JW: Anticancer activity and differentially expressed genes in head and neck cancer cells treated with a novel cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor. Chemotherapy. 2009;55(5):353-62. Epub 2009 Aug 5.

In this study, we investigated the antitumor effect and differentially expressed genes (DEGs) in head and neck cancer cells treated by a novel CDK inhibitor, 2-[1,1'-biphenyl]- 4-yl-N-[5-(1,1-dioxo-1lambda (6)-isothiazolidin-2-yl)-1H-indazol-3-yl] acetamide (BAI).
RESULTS: Exposure to BAI of 2 different head and neck cancer cell lines, AMC-HN4 and AMC-HN6, induced apoptosis in association with growth inhibition, cell cycle arrest, caspase-3 activation and cytochrome c release.
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