Table 2. Indonesian plants and/or their components that show chemopreventive activity targeting cancers’ proliferative signaling .
Molecular target | Plant/compounds | Reference(s) |
AR signaling (↓) |
Thymoquinone Curcumin |
27
28 |
EGFR (↓) | Brucea javanica (aqueous extract) | 29,30 |
Curcumin | 32 | |
HER2 (↓) | C. sappan (ethanol extract) | 31 |
Curcumin | 32 | |
NF-κB signaling (↓) | Bruceajavanone B | 33 |
Bruceine A | 33 | |
Brusatol | 34 | |
Panduratin A | 35 | |
c-Myc (↓) | Bruceantin | 36 |
Cell cycle (CDKs/cyclins) (↓) | Panduratin A (cyclin D1, cyclin E; CDK 2, 4, 6) | 37 |
Brazilein (cyclin D) | 38 |
AR: androgen receptor; EGFR: epidermal growth factor receptor; HER2: human epidermal growth factor receptor 2; CDK: cyclin-dependent kinase.
↓: indicates down-regulation of a protein and/or pathway.