Inhibitory effects on bacterial growth and b‐ketoacyl‐ACP reductase by different species of maple leaf extracts and tannic acid
- 14 January 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Phytotherapy Research
- Vol. 24 (S1), S35-S41
- https://doi.org/10.1002/ptr.2873
Abstract
It is important to develop new antibiotics aimed at novel targets. The investigation found that the leaf extracts from five maples (Acer platanoides, Acer campestre, Acer rubrum, Acer saccharum and Acer truncatum Bunge collected in Denmark, Canada and China) and their component tannic acid displayed antibacterial ability against 24 standard bacteria strains with the minimum inhibitory concentration of 0.3–8.0 mg/mL. Unlike the standard antibiotic levofloxacin (LFX), these samples inhibited Gram‐positive bacteria more effectively than they inhibited Gram‐negative bacteria. These samples effectively inhibited two antidrug bacterial strains. The results show that these samples inhibit bacteria by a different mechanism from LFX. These samples potently inhibited b‐ketoacyl‐ACP reductase (FabG), which is an important enzyme in bacterial fatty acid synthesis. Tannic acid showed the strongest inhibition on FabG with a half inhibition concentration of 0.78 mm (0.81 mg/mL). Furthermore, tannic acid and two maple leaf extracts showed time‐dependent irreversible inhibition of FabG. These three samples also exhibited better inhibition on bacteria. It is suggested that FabG is the antibacteria target of maple leaf extracts and tannic acid, and both reversible and irreversible inhibitions of FabG are important for the antibacterial effect. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Keywords
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