التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
The anti-Staphylococcus aureus activity of the phenanthrene fraction from fibrous roots of Bletilla striata. |
| المؤلفون: |
Jing-Jing Guo, Bin-Ling Dai, Ni-Pi Chen, Li-Xia Jin, Fu-Sheng Jiang, Zhi-Shan Ding, Chao-Dong Qian |
| المصدر: |
BMC Complementary & Alternative Medicine; 11/29/2016, Vol. 16, p1-7, 7p, 5 Charts, 1 Graph |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
ANTI-infective agents, CELL surface antigens, ANALYTICAL chemistry, GRAM-positive bacteria, HERBAL medicine, HIGH performance liquid chromatography, IMMUNODIAGNOSIS, CHINESE medicine, RESEARCH funding, PLANT roots, STAPHYLOCOCCUS aureus, PHYTOCHEMICALS, DATA analysis software, DESCRIPTIVE statistics, IN vitro studies |
| مستخلص: |
Background: Bletillae Rhizoma, the tuber of Bletilla striata, has been used in Chinese traditional medicine to treat infectious diseases. Chemical studies indicated that phenanthrene was one of the most important components of the herb, with a broad spectrum of antibiotic activity against Gram-positive bacteria. The objective of this study was to further characterize the antibacterial activity of the phenanthrene fraction from the fibrous root of the pseudobulb of B. striata. Methods: The phenanthrene fraction (EF60) from the ethanol extract of fibrous roots of Bletilla striata pseudobulbs was isolated using polyamide column chromatography. The antibacterial activity of the fraction was evaluated in vitro using a 96-well microtiter plate and microbroth dilution method. The cytotoxicity of EF60 against mammalian cells was tested by hemolysis and MTT assays. Results: EF60 was obtained using alcohol extraction and polyamide column chromatography, with a yield of 14.9 g per 1 kg of the fibrous roots of B. striata. In vitro tests indicated that EF60 was active against all tested strains of Staphylococcus aureus, including clinical isolates and methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA). The minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) values of EF60 against these pathogens ranged from 8 to 64 µg/mL. Minimum bactericidal concentration tests demonstrated that EF60 was bactericidal against S. aureus 3304 and ATCC 29213 and was bacteriostatic against S. aureus 3211, ATCC 25923, and ATCC 43300. Consistently, the time-kill assay indicated that EF60 could completely kill S. aureus ATCC 29213 at 2x the MIC within 3 h but could kill less than two logarithmic units of ATCC 43300, even at 4x the MIC within 24 h. The postantibiotic effects (PAE) of EF60 (4x MIC) against strains 29213 and 43300 were 2.0 and 0.38 h, respectively. Further studies indicated that EF60 (160 µg/mL) showed no cytotoxicity against human erythrocytes, and was minimally toxic to Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells with an IC50 of 75 µg/mL. Conclusions: Our studies indicated that EF60 is worthy of further investigation as a potential phytotherapeutic agent for treating infections caused by S. aureus and MRSA. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| قاعدة البيانات: |
Complementary Index |
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