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dc.creatorChen,Peng
dc.creatorXu,Ruixiang
dc.creatorYan,Lei
dc.creatorWu,Zhengrong
dc.creatorWei,Yan
dc.creatorZhao,Wenbin
dc.creatorWang,Xin
dc.creatorXie,Qinjian
dc.creatorLi,Hongyu
dc.date2017-01-01
dc.date.accessioned2019-05-02T21:22:41Z
dc.date.available2019-05-02T21:22:41Z
dc.identifierhttps://scielo.conicyt.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-97602017000100502
dc.identifier.urihttp://revistaschilenas.uchile.cl/handle/2250/82736
dc.descriptionAbstract Realgar is a naturally occurring arsenic sulfide (or Xionghuang, in Chinese). It contains over 90% tetra-arsenic tetrasulfide (As4S4). Currently, realgar has been confirmed the antitumor activities, both in vitro and in vivo, of realgar extracted using Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans (A. ferrooxidans). Bioleaching, a new technology to greatly improve the use rate of arsenic extraction from realgar using bacteria, is a novel methodology that addressed a limitation of the traditional method for realgar preparation. The present systematic review reports on the research progress in realgar bioleaching and its antitumor mechanism as an anticancer agent. A total of 93 research articles that report on the biological activity of extracts from realgar using bacteria and its preparation were presented in this review. The realgar bioleaching solution (RBS) works by inducing apoptosis when it is used to treat tumor cells in vitro and in vivo. When it is used to treat animal model organisms in vivo, such as mice and Caenorhabditis elegans, tumor tissues grew more slowly, with mass necrosis. Meanwhile, the agent also showed obvious inhibition of tumor cell growth. Bioleaching technology greatly improves the utilization of realgar and is a novel methodology to improve the traditional method.
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dc.languageen
dc.publisherSociedad de Biología de Chile
dc.relation10.1186/s40659-017-0122-y
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.sourceBiological Research v.50 2017
dc.subjectA. ferrooxidans
dc.subjectAnticancer effect
dc.subjectBioleaching
dc.subjectRBS
dc.subjectRealgar
dc.titleProperties of realgar bioleaching using an extremely acidophilic bacterium and its antitumor mechanism as an anticancer agent


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