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Intsia Palembanica Wood Extracts and Its Isolated Compounds As Propionibacterium Acnes Lipase Inhibitor J Wood Sci DOI 10.1007/s10086-013-1388-5 NOTE Intsia palembanica wood extracts and its isolated compounds as Propionibacterium acnes lipase inhibitor Irmanida Batubara • Harlinda Kuspradini • Ali Mahmoud Muddathir • Tohru Mitsunaga Received: 9 August 2013 / Accepted: 9 December 2013 Ó The Japan Wood Research Society 2014 Abstract Potential compounds from Intsia palembanica Keywords Intsia palembanica Á Propionibacterium methanol extracts were isolated. Three isolated compounds acnes lipase inhibitor Á Flavonoid as well as 7 reported compounds from Merbau were ana- lyzed for their ability to inhibit the lipase activity of Pro- pionibacterium acnes. Lipase was isolated from P. acnes Introduction and used as enzyme for activity analysis. The lipase activity test was performed using the 2,3-dimercapto-1-propanol Propionibacterium acnes is a gram-positive anaerobic bac- tributyrate (BALB) method. The results showed that teria which is implicated in the inflammatory phase of acne. It methanol extract and water fraction were active to inhibit secretes several proinflammatory products such as lipases, lipase activity but n-hexane fraction and EtOAc fraction did proteases hyaluronidases, and chemotactic factors related to not reach 50 % inhibition until 500 lg/ml. EtOAc fraction the development of inflammation in acne [1]. Propionibac- consisted of flavonoid, naringenin, robinetin, and (?)-ep- terium acnes lipases produce free fatty acids on sebaceous irobidanol accelerated the lipase activity. The other 7 triglycerides that finally results to severe inflammation [2]. compounds showed inhibitory activity of lipase in a con- Previous research reported that one of 40 Indonesia centration-dependent manner. In conclusion, fustin is the plant materials, Intsia palembanica (Merbau), had a strong most active compound to inhibit the P. acnes lipase activity. P. acnes lipase inhibition activity. Despite having no antibacterial activity against P. acnes, the Merbau metha- nolic extract gave a very strong lipase inhibition activity as I. Batubara well as a very high anti-oxidant activity [3]. Other natural Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural substances such as Kampo formulation, coptidis rhizome Sciences, Biopharmaca Research Center, Bogor Agricultural and its alkaloid, catechin, and kaempferol have been University, Bogor, Indonesia reported to inhibit P. acnes lipase activity [4, 5]. Unfor- H. Kuspradini tunately, the publication related to P. acnes lipase inhibi- Faculty of Forestry, Mulawarman University, Samarinda, tory activity from natural product is still limited, so that it East Kalimantan, Indonesia is interesting to look for the active compounds from Mer- A. M. Muddathir bau for P. acnes lipase inhibition. Graduated School of Agricultural Science, Gifu University, Gifu, Ten flavonoid compounds: (-)-robidanol, (?)-epiro- Japan bidanol, 40-dehydroxyrobidanol, fustin, ampelopsin, na- ringenin, robinetin, myricetin, quercetin and 3,7,30,50- A. M. Muddathir Department of Horticulture, Faculty of Agriculture, University tetrahydroxyflavone were isolated from Merbau methanolic of Khartoum, Khartoum North, Shambat, Sudan extracts [6, 7]. The structures of the 10 compounds are shown in Fig. 1. On this paper the activity of methanol & T. Mitsunaga ( ) extract, n-hexane fraction, EtOAc fraction, water fraction, Faculty of Applied Biological Science, Gifu University, 1-1 Yanagido, Gifu 501-1193, Japan and 10 isolated flavonoids against P. acnes lipase will be e-mail: [email protected] discussed. 123 J Wood Sci Fig. 1 Structures of the HO flavonoids from I. palembanica OH HO R2 HO O R2 HO O OH OH R O R1 1 R 2 R OH 3 HO O HO O R4 OH OH R1 O OH O Materials and methods Lipase inhibitory activity assay Plant material Merbau was collected from East Kaliman- The lipase used on this research was isolated from P. acnes tan, Indonesia. The identification and voucher specimen as described in our previous report. Lipase inhibitory was deposited at the Wood Anatomy Laboratory, Faculty activity assay was also conducted using the 2,3-dimer- of Forestry, Mulawarman University, East Kalimantan, capto-1-propanol tributyrate (BALB) method previously Indonesia No. FHT.LA. 12.9p. described [3]. Tetracycline was used as the positive control Chemicals Quercetin (Sigma Aldrich), naringenin based on its activity to inhibit the lipase production of P. (Sigma Aldrich), myricetin (Extrasyntheses, Genay, acnes [8]. The samples used were methanol extracts, n- France), fustin, ampelopsin, and robinetin compounds were hexane fraction, EtOAc fraction, water fraction, and 10 collected and isolated previously. flavonoids from Merbau. The concentration used for the samples ranged from 2.0 to 500 lg/ml. The activity of each sample is reported as % inhibition. We selected 5 different Extraction and isolation concentrations and reported in this paper. The extraction, fractionation and isolation methods were performed as previous reported described [7]. The metha- Results and discussion nol extract, n-hexane fraction, EtOAc fraction, and water fraction were obtained. Finally, three compounds: (-)-ro- Methanol extract of I. palembanica had a very strong bidanol (purity of 96 % based on HPLC), (?)-epirobidanol inhibitory activity against P. acnes lipase (IC50: 4.1 lg/ml) (purity of 95 % based on HPLC), and 40-dehydroxyrobid- [3]. At the concentration of 62.5 lg/ml it inhibited about anol (purity of 91 % based on HPLC) were isolated and 70 % P. acnes lipase activity (Fig. 2). The fractionation of determined from EtOAc fractions. this extract into n-hexane, EtOAc and water gave different 123 J Wood Sci 120 dehydroxyrobidanol (retention time of 22.6 min), myristin 100 (retention time of 29.2 min), etc. Based on the activity of 80 EtOAc fraction, it could be assumed that most of flavonoid 60 40 in EtOAc fraction could be not active and others could 20 have activities. So, it is interesting to study about the 0 activity of some flavonoid in I. palembanica against lipase. % inhibition -20 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 The water fraction which is main component in methanol -40 extract (yield 58 % from methanol extract) is the respon- -60 concentration (ug/ml) sible fractions for the activity of I. palembanica methanol methanol extract water fraction extract. Based on the peak shape of water fraction, the EtOAc fraction hexane fraction water fraction could be consists of tannins. Tannins have been reported as lipase inhibitory active compounds [9]. Fig. 2 Inhibition of lipase activities of methanol extract, n-hexane The lipase inhibitory activity of extract, fraction as well fraction, EtOAc fraction, and water fraction at different concentrations as the flavonoid compounds are compared with tetracy- cline. Based on the ability of tetracycline as an antimi- results. Non-polar fraction (n-hexane fraction) accelerated crobial and its inhibitory activity against P. acnes lipase, the lipase activity on a concentration-dependent manner; tetracycline is used as positive controls [2]. Event tetra- lower concentrations gave accelerated activities. The semi- cycline reported has activity to inhibit lipase, but this polar fraction (EtOAc fraction), however only inhibited research results showed that tetracycline is not good 15 % P. acnes lipase activity at the high concentration of enough to inhibit lipase from P. acnes. 500 lg/ml. The active fraction found in the polar fraction The 10 flavonoid isolated compounds could be divided into (water fraction) could inhibit 50 % lipase activity at the 4 subgroups, namely: flavan-3-ols, flavanonol, flavon, and 0 concentration of 62.5 lg/ml (IC50: 48.64 lg/ml, Table 1). flavonol. (-)-robidanol, (?)-epirobidanol, and 4 -dehy- Activity of methanol extract and other fractions are droxyrobidanol belong to the flavan-3-ols group, whereas fu- different. The differences could be explained by HPLC stin and ampelopsin belongs to the flavanonol group. Only chromatogram (Fig. 3). The n-hexane fraction consisted of naringenin belongs to the flavon group while robinetin, my- non-polar compounds which is not active to inhibit the ricetin, quercetin and 3,7,30,50-tetrahydroxyflavone are classi- lipase activity. A chromatogram of this fraction has peaks fied under the flavonol group. These compounds have different after 40 min. In a ODS column chromatography, the lower activities against P. acnes lipase (Fig. 4). Three compounds: polarity of the compound the later the elution time. (?)-epirobidanol, robinetin and naringenin, accelerated the Therefore these peaks appearing at later retention time lipase activity, while another 7 compounds inhibited the lipase would be a non polar compound. The yield of n-hexane activity in a concentration-dependent manner. The IC50 lipase fraction is 0.39 % from methanol extract and only gives inhibition values of the compounds are listed in Table 1. small effect to the methanol extract. The EtOAc fraction The flavan-3-ol group, (-)-robidanol and 40-dehy- with yield about 40 % from methanol extract has peaks droxyrobidanol have lipase inhibitory activities while the between retention times of 17–30 min. This peaks con- (?)-epirobidanol accelerated the lipase activity. The ste- sisted of some flavonoids such as epirobidanol (retention reochemistry becomes important in the inhibition activity. time of 17.2 min), ampelopsin (retention time of (?)-catechin which belongs to the flavan-3-ol group but 20.1 min), robidanol (retention time of 21.1 min), 40- has the same stereochemistry with (?)-epirobidanol could Table 1 IC50 values of fractions and compounds derived from Intsia palembanica extracts Sample name IC50 (lg/ml) Compound name IC50 (lg/ml) (lM) Methanol extract 4.10 ± 0.21 (-)-robidanol 29.06 ± 5.84 100.2 ± 20.1 n-hexane fraction [500 40-dehydroxyrobidanol 10.97 ± 0.79 40.0 ± 2.8 EtOAc fraction [500 Ampelopsin 10.97 ± 2.11 36.1 ± 6.9 Water fraction 48.64 ± 5.82 Fustin 3.95 ± 0.24 13.7 ± 0.8 Quercetin 127.26 ± 4.11 421.4 ± 13.6 myricetin 107.40 ± 3.52 375.5 ± 12.3 3,7,30,50-tetrahydroxyflavone 239.11 ± 3.53 885.6 ± 12.9 Tetracycline 471.34 ± 13.42 1,060 ± 53.4 123 J Wood Sci Fig. 3 HPLC profiles of methanol extract (a), n-hexane fraction (b), EtOAc fraction (c) and water fraction (d) 123 J Wood Sci Fig.
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