The invention relates to application of
echinacoside in anti-tumor medicaments. The application provided by the invention is as follows: firstly adding MTH1, inorganic
pyrophosphatase and dGTP into a reaction solution (100mM pH 8.0
Tris-
acetic acid, 40mM NaCl, 10mM
magnesium acetate, 0.005% Tween 20 and 1mM DTT), incubating an
enzyme and a substrate at
room temperature for 1h, then adding 25 mu l of
malachite green solution to terminate reaction and performing
absorbance detection at 630nm by using an iMark
microplate reader, wherein results show that
echinacoside has a significant effect of inhibiting
enzyme activity of MTH1; and secondly detecting the effects of
echinacoside against
tumor cells at the
cellular level by an MTT experiment, wherein the results show that echinacoside can obviously inhibit the growth of SW480 colon
cancer cells and U2OS human
osteosarcoma cells. According to the application provided by the invention, echinacoside is used for inhibiting
specific enzyme MTH1 for maintaining survival in the
tumor cells, and oxidized
nucleotide is mixed into
DNA, thereby resulting in fatal
DNA double-strand break in the
cancer cells, producing an anti-tumor effect, finding a new medical use of echinacoside and laying a foundation for future development of the new anti-tumor medicaments.