Artemisia vulgaris inhibits BCR/ABL and promotes apoptosis in chronic myeloid leukemia cells. (PubMed, Biomed Rep)
As a result, cells expressing different forms of BCR/ABL were recruited for the present study, including K562 (human wild-type) or TCCY-T315I (human imatinib-resistant) and the Ba/F3-(T315I/E279K/Y253H) (mouse BCR/ABL point mutation-transfected cells)...The results demonstrated that the ethyl acetate and chloroform fractions were more effective than the n-hexane and water fractions. It is thus concluded that AVM inhibits the activity of BCR/ABL and their subsequent molecular signals, including AKT and MAPK, resulting in cytotoxicity via apoptosis.