Probing key targets in insulin signaling and adipogenesis using a methanolic extract of Costus pictus and its bioactive molecule,methyl tetracosanoate |
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Authors: | Kusampudi Shilpa Kadapakkam Nandabalan Sangeetha Velusamy Shanmuganathan Muthusamy Sundaresan Sujatha Baddireddi Subadhra Lakshmi |
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Affiliation: | (1) Centre for Biotechnology, Anna University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 600025, India; |
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Abstract: | A methanolic extract of Costus pictus (CPME) showed optimum anti-diabetic activity at 100 ng/ml. Bioactivity-guided purification of CPME led to the isolation of methyl tetracosanoate (MT) which showed an optimum glucose uptake at 1 ng/ml. CPME at 10 μg/ml inhibited adipogenesis whereas fully differentiated adipocytes exhibited a 3-fold increase in lipid accumulation compared to pre-adipocytes. Gene and protein expression of key targets in insulin signaling and adipogenesis pathway revealed that CPME exhibited anti-diabetic activity along with anti-adipogenic activity whereas MT demonstrated only anti-diabetic activity. |
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