Screening of Antimicrobial, Antibiofilm, and Cytotoxic Activities of Some Medicinal Plants from Balıkesir Province, Türkiye: Potential Effects of Allium paniculatum Flower.
{"title":"Screening of Antimicrobial, Antibiofilm, and Cytotoxic Activities of Some Medicinal Plants from Balıkesir Province, Türkiye: Potential Effects of <i>Allium paniculatum</i> Flower.","authors":"Özlem Oyardı, Mayram Hacıoğlu, Ebru Özdemir, Meryem Şeyda Erbay, Şükran Kültür, Çağla Bozkurt Güzel","doi":"10.4274/tjps.galenos.2023.88935","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>Plant extracts are important natural resources that may have antimicrobial and antibiofilm effects against pathogens. This study was conducted to investigate the in vitro antimicrobial activities of methanol extracts of some medicinal plants (<i>Achillea nobilis</i> subspecies <i>neilreichii</i> (A. Kern.) Velen., <i>Aetheorhiza bulbosa</i> (L.) Cass, <i>Allium paniculatum</i> L, <i>Asphodelus aestivus</i> Brot., <i>Ballota nigra</i> L., <i>Cistus laurifolius</i> L., <i>Cistus salviifolius</i> L., <i>Dioscorea communis</i> (L.) Caddick and Wilkin, <i>Galium verum</i> L., <i>Hypericum triquetrifolium</i> Turra, <i>Paliurus spina-christi</i> Mill., <i>Primula vulgaris</i> Huds. subspecies <i>rubra</i> (Sm.) Arcang., <i>Ranunculus arvensis</i> L. and <i>Teucrium polium</i> L.) from Balıkesir province in Türkiye.</p><p><strong>Materials and methods: </strong>Preliminary antimicrobial activity screening was conducted for all extracts. Antibiofilm activity studies were conducted on mature <i>Candida albicans</i> biofilms. Moreover, the cytotoxicities of <i>A. paniculatum</i> flower extract on A549 and Vero cell lines were determined using a colorimetric tetrazolium-based assay.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong><i>A. paniculatum</i> flower, <i>P. vulgaris</i> root, <i>C. laurifolius, C. salviifolius</i>, and <i>A. nobilis</i> displayed good activity [minimum inhibitory concentrations (MIC): 9.75, 156, 312, 312 and 312 μg/mL, respectively] against <i>C. albicans</i> American Type Culture Collection 10231. Biofilm studies were conducted on these plant extracts. The methanol extract of <i>A. paniculatum</i> flower decreased the number of <i>C. albicans</i> [colony-forming unit (CFU)/mL] in mature biofilm statistically at 32 x MIC and higher concentrations (<i>p</i> < 0.01). <i>A. paniculatum</i> flower extract had a cytotoxic effect (killing more than 50% of cells) at high concentrations, and its effect on Vero cells was similar to that on A549 cells.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>This study demonstrated the importance of the methanol extract of <i>A. paniculatum</i> flower as a natural alternative against <i>C. albicans</i> infections, including biofilms.</p>","PeriodicalId":1,"journal":{"name":"Accounts of Chemical Research","volume":" ","pages":"252-258"},"PeriodicalIF":17.7000,"publicationDate":"2024-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11590556/pdf/","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Accounts of Chemical Research","FirstCategoryId":"92","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4274/tjps.galenos.2023.88935","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Abstract
Objectives: Plant extracts are important natural resources that may have antimicrobial and antibiofilm effects against pathogens. This study was conducted to investigate the in vitro antimicrobial activities of methanol extracts of some medicinal plants (Achillea nobilis subspecies neilreichii (A. Kern.) Velen., Aetheorhiza bulbosa (L.) Cass, Allium paniculatum L, Asphodelus aestivus Brot., Ballota nigra L., Cistus laurifolius L., Cistus salviifolius L., Dioscorea communis (L.) Caddick and Wilkin, Galium verum L., Hypericum triquetrifolium Turra, Paliurus spina-christi Mill., Primula vulgaris Huds. subspecies rubra (Sm.) Arcang., Ranunculus arvensis L. and Teucrium polium L.) from Balıkesir province in Türkiye.
Materials and methods: Preliminary antimicrobial activity screening was conducted for all extracts. Antibiofilm activity studies were conducted on mature Candida albicans biofilms. Moreover, the cytotoxicities of A. paniculatum flower extract on A549 and Vero cell lines were determined using a colorimetric tetrazolium-based assay.
Results: A. paniculatum flower, P. vulgaris root, C. laurifolius, C. salviifolius, and A. nobilis displayed good activity [minimum inhibitory concentrations (MIC): 9.75, 156, 312, 312 and 312 μg/mL, respectively] against C. albicans American Type Culture Collection 10231. Biofilm studies were conducted on these plant extracts. The methanol extract of A. paniculatum flower decreased the number of C. albicans [colony-forming unit (CFU)/mL] in mature biofilm statistically at 32 x MIC and higher concentrations (p < 0.01). A. paniculatum flower extract had a cytotoxic effect (killing more than 50% of cells) at high concentrations, and its effect on Vero cells was similar to that on A549 cells.
Conclusion: This study demonstrated the importance of the methanol extract of A. paniculatum flower as a natural alternative against C. albicans infections, including biofilms.
期刊介绍:
Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance.
Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.