Abstract 313: Synergistic interaction between gingerol, shogaol and paradol with platinum-based chemotherapeutic drugs against naïve and resistant breast cancer cells

Breast cancer is one of the most common female cancers and contributes 25.4% of the total diagnosed malignancies in women in 2018. Shogaol, paradol, and gingerol are obtained from many plants belonging to the family Zingiberaceae such as dried ginger and grain of paradise and shows different pharmacological activities. The current study evaluated the anticancer potential of these compounds in combination with chemotherapeutic platinum drugs against breast cancer cells. Cytotoxicity assay, apoptosis assay, immunofluorescent staining cell surface marker analysis, and wound healing assay were used for evaluating the cytotoxic potential of these compounds alone and in combination with platinum chemotherapeutics agents against naive and resistant breast cancer cell lines (MDA-MB-231 and MCF-7adr, respectively). Platinum drugs showed synergism in combination with shogaol and gingerol against the resistant breast cancer cells (MCF-7adr) with a Combination Index (CI) values of 0.39 and 0.54, respectively. A significant increase was observed in the percentages of early and late apoptotic cells for MDA-MB-231 cells treated with 6-shogaol for 24h. Significant decrease in CD44+/CD24- subpopulation was recorded in both cell lines using flowcytometric analysis. In the Wound healing assay, cells treated with the test compounds migrated significantly slower than control and needed a longer time to heal the scratch. In conclusion, gingerol, shogaol, and paradol compounds showed synergistic cytotoxicity with platinum-based drug and augmented their migration inhibitory activity, apoptotic effects, and tumor-associated stem cell suppressive the potential within naive and resistant breast cancer cells. Citation Format: Aziza S. Bawadood, Fahad A. Al-Abbasi, Ali M. El-Halawany, Ahmed M. Al-Abd. Synergistic interaction between gingerol, shogaol and paradol with platinum-based chemotherapeutic drugs against naive and resistant breast cancer cells [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2021; 2021 Apr 10-15 and May 17-21. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2021;81(13_Suppl):Abstract nr 313.