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ArticleScientific reports2022

Metabolomics-based profiling of 4 avocado varieties using HPLC-MS/MS and GC/MS and evaluation of their antidiabetic activity.

Inas Y Younis, Amira R Khattab, Nabil M Selim, Mansour Sobeh, Seham S Elhawary, Mahitab H El Bishbishy

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Article in Scientific reports, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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6 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Inas Y Younis *Pharmacognosy Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Cairo, 11562, Egypt. inas.younis@pharma.cu.edu.eg.
Amira R Khattab *Pharmacognosy Department, College of Pharmacy, Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, Alexandria, 1029, Egypt.
Nabil M SelimPharmacognosy Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Cairo, 11562, Egypt.
Mansour SobehAgroBioSciences, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, 43150, Ben-Guerir, Morocco. Mansour.sobeh@um6p.ma.
Seham S ElhawaryPharmacognosy Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Cairo, 11562, Egypt.
Mahitab H El BishbishyDepartment of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, MSA University, Giza, 12585, Egypt.
Cairo University · EGArab Academy for Science, Technology, and Maritime Transport · EGOctober University of Modern Sciences and Arts · EGUniversité Mohammed VI Polytechnique · MA

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Seven avocado "Persea americana" seeds belonging to 4 varieties, collected from different localities across the world, were profiled using HPLC-MS/MS and GC/MS to explore the metabolic makeup variabilities and antidiabetic potential. For the first time, 51 metabolites were tentatively-identified via HPLC-MS/MS, belonging to different classes including flavonoids, biflavonoids, naphthodianthrones, dihydrochalcones, phloroglucinols and phenolic acids while 68 un-saponified and 26 saponified compounds were identified by GC/MS analysis. The primary metabolic variabilities existing among the different varieties were revealed via GC/MS-based metabolomics assisted by unsupervised pattern recognition methods. Fatty acid accumulations were proved as competent, and varietal-discriminatory metabolites. The antidiabetic potential of the different samples was explored using in-vitro amylase and glucosidase inhibition assays, which pointed out to Gwen (KG) as the most potent antidiabetic sample. This could be attributed to its enriched content of poly-unsaturated fatty acids and polyphenolics. Molecular docking was then performed to predict the most promising phytoligands in KG variety to be posed as antidiabetic drug leads. The highest in-silico α-amylase inhibition was observed with chrysoeriol-4'-O-pentoside-7-O-rutinoside, apigenin-7-glucuronide and neoeriocitrin which might serve as potential drug leads for the discovery of new antidiabetic remedies.

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PerseaChromatography, High Pressure LiquidHypoglycemic AgentsMetabolomicsMolecular Docking SimulationPlant ExtractsTandem Mass SpectrometryHypoglycemic AgentsPlant Extracts

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PMID35322072
PMCPMC8943142
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