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ArticleInternational journal of bacteriology2014

Activity of Aristolochia bracteolata against Moraxella catarrhalis.

Malik Suliman Mohamed, Mona Timan Idriss, Amgad I M Khedr, Haidar Abd AlGadir, Satoshi Takeshita, Mohammad Monir Shah, Yoshio Ichinose, Toshihide Maki

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Article in International journal of bacteriology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Malik Suliman MohamedDepartment of Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Khartoum, 11111 Qasr Street, P.O. Box 1996, Sudan.ORCID 0000-0001-8751-4159
Mona Timan IdrissGraduate School of Biomedical Sciences, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nagasaki University, 1-14 Bunkyo-machi, Nagasaki-shi 852-8521, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-2319-4165
Amgad I M KhedrDepartment of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Al-Azhar University, Assuit Branch, Assuit 71524, Egypt.
Haidar Abd AlGadirThe Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Research Institute (MAPRI), National Centre for Research, Mac Nimr Street, P.O. Box 2404, Khartoum, Sudan.
Satoshi TakeshitaCenter for Industry, University and Government Cooperation, Nagasaki University, 1-14 Bunkyo-machi, Nagasaki-shi 852-8521, Japan.
Mohammad Monir ShahKenya Research Station, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, 1-12-4 Sakamoto, Nagasaki-shi 852-8523, Japan.
Yoshio IchinoseKenya Research Station, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, 1-12-4 Sakamoto, Nagasaki-shi 852-8523, Japan.
Toshihide MakiGraduate School of Biomedical Sciences, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nagasaki University, 1-14 Bunkyo-machi, Nagasaki-shi 852-8521, Japan; Center for Industry, University and Government Cooperation, Nagasaki University, 1-14 Bunkyo-machi, Nagasaki-shi 852-8521, Japan.
Nagasaki University · JPAl-Azhar University · EGNational Centre for Research · SDUniversity of Khartoum · SD

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A bioassay-guided fractionation of methanol extract of Aristolochia bracteolata whole plant was carried out in order to evaluate its antimicrobial activity and to identify the active compounds in this extract. Antibacterial and antifungal activities of methanol extract against gram-positive, gram-negative, and fungal strains were investigated by the agar disk diffusion method. Among the strains tested, Moraxella catarrhalis and sea urchin-derived Bacillus sp. showed the highest sensitivity towards the methanol extract and hence they are used as test organisms for the bioassay-guided fractionation. From this extract, aristolochic acid 1 (AA-1) has been isolated and has showed the greatest antibacterial activity against both standard strain and clinical isolates of Moraxella catarrhalis with equal minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) and minimum bactericidal concentration (MBC) values of 25 and 50 μg/mL. Modification of the AA-1 to AA-1 methyl ester completely abolished the antibacterial activity of the compound and the piperonylic acid moiety of AA-1 which suggested that the coexistence of phenanthrene ring and free carboxylic acid is essential for AA-1 antibacterial activity.

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PMID26904734
PMCPMC4745564
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