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  2. Oridonin acts as a novel senolytic by targeting glutathione S-transferases to activate the ROS-p38 signaling axis in senescent cells

Oridonin acts as a novel senolytic by targeting glutathione S-transferases to activate the ROS-p38 signaling axis in senescent cells

  • Chem Commun (Camb). 2022 Nov 29;58(95):13250-13253. doi: 10.1039/d2cc05278d.
Ying Zhang 1 Qianyu Zhang 2 Zheng Chu 1 Lin Chen 1 Jiayun Chen 1 Yang Yang 1 Huan Tang 1 Guangqing Cheng 1 Ang Ma 1 Ying Zhang 1 Chen Wang 1 Peng Gao 1 Fei Xia 1 Qiuyan Guo 1 Qiaoli Shi 1 Guang Han 2 Jigang Wang 1 3 Yinhua Zhu 1
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 Artemisinin Research Center, and Institute of Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, 100700, China. yhzhu@icmm.ac.cn.
  • 2 Pharmaceutical College, Henan University, Kaifeng, 75004, China. hang@henu.edu.cn.
  • 3 Department of Nephrology, Shenzhen People's Hospital, The First Affiliated Hospital, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518020, Guangdong, China.
Abstract

Most of the known senolytics are anti-cancer drugs or their derivative molecules. However, senolytics derived from the active ingredients of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) are rarely reported. Here, we identified oridonin as a novel senolytic and further revealed that it might target a class of glutathione S-transferases to activate ROS-p38 signaling and induce Apoptosis in senescent cells.

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