Anti-Mycobacterium tuberculosis Activity of Calophyllum brasiliense Extracts Obtained by Supercritical Fluid Extraction and Conventional Techniques

Title:Anti-Mycobacterium tuberculosis Activity of Calophyllum brasiliense Extracts Obtained by Supercritical Fluid Extraction and Conventional Techniques

Volume: 17 Issue: 6

Author(s): Claudia T.A. Pires, Regiane B. de L. Scodro, Mislaine A. Brenzan, Diógenes A.G. Cortez, Vera L.D. Siqueira, Lúcio Cardozo-Filho, Renata M. Goncalves, Katiany R. Caleffi-Ferracioli and Rosilene F. Cardoso

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Keywords: Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Calophyllum brasiliense, supercritical fluid extraction, cytotoxicity, coumarin, HPLC.

Abstract: The conventional techniques used to extract natural products have many disadvantages, and alternative methods have been used, such as supercritical fluid extraction (SFE-CO2). We compared the anti-Mycobacterium tuberculosis activity and cytotoxicity of extracts and major pure compounds were obtained from the leaves of Calophyllum brasiliense by SFE-CO2, maceration and Soxhlet. Anti-M tuberculosis activity was evaluated by resazurin microtiter assay plate and cytotoxicity assay was performed using 3-(4,5-dimethyl thiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyl tetrazolium bromide. The (-) mammea A/BB, (-) mammea B/BB, mammea B/BB cyclo D, ponnalide, mammea A/BA cyclo D, and amentoflavone were identified as the majority compounds. SFE-CO2, especially at 313 K and 10.92 MPa showed better yield for (-) mammea A/BB. Anti-M. tuberculosis activity (62.5 μg/mL) and cytotoxicity (Selectivity Index = 0.320-0.576) were similar for the three extracts. Mammea B/BB cyclo D had a minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of 125 μg/mL, and ponnalide and mammea A/BA cyclo D had MICs > 250 μg/mL. The pure compounds isolated showed low Selectivity Index (< 0.09). SFE-CO2 may be more promising than conventional methods for the extraction of compound (-) mammea A/BB, which presented the best anti-M. tuberculosis activity in our previous study. This is important for current industrial requirements to obtain extracts from medicinal plants using clean technologies.

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T.A. Pires Claudia, B. de L. Scodro Regiane, A. Brenzan Mislaine, A.G. Cortez Diógenes, L.D. Siqueira Vera, Cardozo-Filho Lúcio, M. Goncalves Renata, R. Caleffi-Ferracioli Katiany and F. Cardoso Rosilene, Anti-Mycobacterium tuberculosis Activity of Calophyllum brasiliense Extracts Obtained by Supercritical Fluid Extraction and Conventional Techniques, Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology 2016; 17(6) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1389201017666160114094723