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    Antimicrobial activity of Vitex agnus-castus Essential Oil and Molecular Docking Study of Its Major Constituents
    (2/26/2020) Bakr, R.O; Zaghloul, S.S; Hassan, R A; Sonousi, A; Wasfi, R; Fayed, M A A
    Antimicrobial resistance represents a public health problem worldwide that is associated with high morbidity and mortality which rose up the need for natural products as being an effective alternative. This study aims to evaluate the antimicrobial activity of the Vitex agnus-cactus L. essential oil (EO) towards bacterial and fungal strains of economic importance, besides, correlating its chemical constituents to the observed antimicrobial and antifungal activity using molecular docking. The chemical composition of essential oil was analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectroscopy (GC-MS), where oxygenated monoterpenes (44.98 %) and monoterpenes (32.2 %) represented the major classes. Molecular docking study was carried out for the major identified essential oil constituents against bacterial protein targets, where, sabinene, 1,8 cineole, and linalool (the major oil constituents) acted on multi targets and reflected the effective antibacterial activity. Additionally, caryophyllene and verticiol showed a high binding affinity to Candida’s Farnesyl pyrophosphate synthase, a critical enzyme responsible for cell membrane integrity. V. agnus-cactus L. oil demonstrated itself as a powerful anticandidal agent providing a possible candidate in the pharmaceutical formulations. © 2020, © 2020 Har Krishan Bhalla & Sons. SciVal Topic Prominence
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    Metabolite profiling of three Opuntia ficus-indica fruit cultivars using UPLC-QTOF-MS in relation to their antioxidant potential
    (Elsevier Ltd, 2020-08) Farag, M.A; Sallam, I.E; Fekry, M.I; Zaghloul, S.S; El-Dine, R.S
    Opuntia ficus-indica is the economically important cactus species belonging to the Cactaceae family. Its importance arises from its nutritional value and various biological activities such as antioxidant, anticancer and antimicrobial activities. This study attempts to characterize the metabolic profile of three O. ficus cultivars having different colors, i.e., red ‘Rose’, greenish white ‘Bianca’ and yellow-orange represented by peels and pulp tissues using ultra-performance liquid chromatography coupled to high resolution time of flight mass spectrometry (UPLC-QTOF-MS). A total of 45 metabolites were identified mainly flavonoids: isorhamnetin conjugates and phenolic acids, whereas betaxanthins and coumarins were present at lower levels. Principle component analysis and orthogonal projection discriminant analysis showed that dihydroxy psoralen-O-hexoside and glycosidic conjugates of ferulic acid were the most discriminatory metabolites among the peels and pulps within the different cultivars. On the other hand, the level of flavonoids was comparable among the cultivars. The antioxidant activity of peels and pulps extracts were further measured using 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl and 2,2′-azino-bis(3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulphonic acid) assays. ‘‘Rose’’ cultivar peel rich in dihydroxy psoralen-O-hexoside showed the highest antioxidant activity in both assays. This suggested that coumarins and flavonoids mediated high antioxidant activity of O. ficus-indica fruits although present at low levels