89urn:lsid:arphahub.com:pub:CCBBD2E1-BDAF-5702-AE4B-0E4910A4C7D6PharmaciaPHAR0428-02962603-557XBulgarian Pharmaceutical Scientific Society10.3897/pharmacia.70.e9681796817Research ArticlePharmaceuticsPharmacologyAntioxidant, cholesterol lowering activity, and analysis of Caesalpiniabonducella seeds extractMusaWeny J. A.wenymusa977@gmail.com1BialangiNurhayati1KiloAhmad Kadir1SitumeangBoimahttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-5505-59282SuspariniNinik Triayu2RusydiIlham Dwi3Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematic and Natural Science, Universitas Negeri Gorontalo, Gorontalo 96128, IndonesiaUniversitas Negeri GorontaloGorontaloIndonesiaDepartment of Chemistry, Sekolah Tinggi Analis Kimia Cilegon, Banten 043259, IndonesiaDepartment of Chemistry, Sekolah Tinggi Analis Kimia CilegonBantenIndonesiaDepartment of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematic and Natural Science, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Sleman 55281, IndonesiaUniversitas Gadjah MadaSlemanIndonesia
Corresponding author: Weny J.A. Musa (wenymusa977@gmail.com)
20232701202370197103604D2AB8-DD64-5816-9B9D-45BC2533837A2810202201122022Weny J. A. Musa, Nurhayati Bialangi, Ahmad Kadir Kilo, Boima Situmeang, Ninik Triayu Susparini, Ilham Dwi RusydiThis is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Tombili plant (Caesalpiniabonducella) belongs to the family of Fabaceae. The seed extract of tombili has been empirically used as a traditional medicine. The purpose of this research was to fractionate tombili seed extract and test their antioxidant and cholesterol lowering activities. Extraction was made into fractions using n-hexane, ethyl acetate, and methanol as a solvent. The chemical compound of the ethyl acetate fraction was analyzed using liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS). Antioxidant activity was tested using the DPPH method. The highest antioxidant activity was shown in ethyl acetate fraction with an IC50 value of 86.153 μg/mL. The second was the methanol fraction with an IC50 value of 94.053 μg/mL, and the third was the n-hexane fraction with an IC50 value of 100.933 μg/mL. The cholesterol lowering activity analysis showed that all fractions could inhibit cholesterol. The highest anti-cholesterol activity shown in ethyl acetate fraction with the concentration of 600 μg/mL can inhibit 81.5% of the cholesterol activity. The LC-MS/MS analysis showed that the ethyl acetate fraction contained glucoside, homoplantaginin, and vernolic acid compounds.
antioxidantcholesterol lowering activityCaesalpiniabonducellaLC-MS/MS analysisUniversitas Negeri GorontaloIntroduction
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the diseases of heart and blood vessels which considered one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Hypercholesterolemia is a key risk factor for cardiovascular disease and monitors the primary mortality of developing heart disease. The release of toxic free radicals by endothelial cells and vascular smooth muscle cells is the primary pathogenic factor for CVDs (Taleb et al. 2018). The cholesterol present in these matrices also can oxidize in favorable conditions such as the presence of water, temperature, pH, and the form of substrate (de Oliveira et al. 2018). Cholesterol oxidation susceptible to attack by reactive oxygen species (ROS) which are formed of molecules hydroxy (OH), peroxy (OOH) groups, 1O2, 3O2 and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2). The use of natural antioxidants from herbs represents an efficient alternative to control the formation of cholesterol oxidation product.
One common plant that has been used in traditional medicine is Caesalpiniabonducella, belongs to the family of Fabaceae (Aswar and Bhanudas 2011). This plant originated in Gorontalo, Indonesia (Sembiring et al. 2018). In Indonesia, C.bonducella is known as Tombili, Bagore, Kalici, Tinglur, and Areuy (Kakade et al. 2017). Tombili plants are also distributed in other tropical and subtropical parts of Asia, such as India, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, China, Myanmar, and Bangladesh (Musa et al. 2020).
In an earlier study, the phytochemical screening of Tombili seed showed that tombili seed contains saponins, phytosterols, flavonoids, and phenolics group compounds (Singh and Raghav 2012). This plant has proven pharmacological activity including the reduction of glucose levels (Esmaeili et al. 2015), reduce postprandial blood glucose levels and prevent the reduction of degraded plasma insulin levels in diabetic male albino rats (Larasati et al. 2016). Tombili seed methanol extract was also reported to have antihyperglycemic and hypolipidemic activity in induced diabetic rats (Modak et al. 2007), but limited report that studied its advantages to lowering cholesterol activity. Since the process of cholesterol oxidation is similar to the process of other unsaturated lipids, we try to prove the effectiveness antioxidants activity of tombili to disrupt the radical chain reactions by donating hydrogen atoms to these molecules. The active hydrogen atom of the antioxidant abstracted by the reactive radicals; thus, inactive species are formed. In this research, antioxidant, cholesterol lowering activity, and chemical content analyses from fractions of tombili were evaluated. Antioxidant activity in vitro method was done by DPPH scavenging (Rafi et al. 2020).
Materials and methodsMaterials
The tombili seeds collected from Bobohu villages, Gorontalo province, Indonesia. Tombili was identified at the Laboratory of Biology Department (Plant Taxonomy), Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science, Gorontalo State University, Indonesia with the specimen being identified by Weny JA Musa and verified by the relevant department under specimen number of 021/UN47.B4./LL/2019 as CaesalpiniaBonducella (L.) Fleming. The chemicals used were methanol, ethyl acetate, and n-hexane solvent (Pro Analysis Grade) used for extraction and fractionation. 2,2- diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) was purchased from Sigma-Aldrich (St. Louis, MO, USA). The cholesterol solution Sigma-Aldrich (St. Louis, MO, USA), sulfate acid (H2SO4), and acetic anhydride were purchased from Merck (Darmstadt, Germany).
Extraction and partition
The extract was made with 1.2 kg of Tombili seed powder and macerated for three days. To obtain n-hexane and ethyl acetate fractions, 200 of the extract was partitioned by liquid-liquid extraction with n- n-hexane and ethyl acetate at a 1:1 ratio. The rotary evaporator was used to concentrate all fractions. The yield of each solvent was then determined. The fractions were created by combining n-hexane (29.5 g) and ethyl acetate (63.4 g) Antioxidant and cholesterol-lowering activity was assessed in all fractions. The fraction with the highest antioxidant activity and the lowest cholesterol activity was injected into an LC-MS/MS for chemical compound analysis. The external appearance and necessary procedure for the extraction are shown on Fig. 1.
Tombili plant (a), Tombili fruit (b), Tombili powder (c), Extraction of tombili (d), Extract of tombili seed (e), Tombili extract evaporation, (f) Tombili thick extract (g).
https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/802135Antioxidant activity test procedure
The antioxidant activity of each fraction was tested using the DPPH technique. According to Fareza et al. 2021, the test process was followed. A total of 2400 L stock solution of fractions was made in series concentration (200, 250, 300, 350, and 400 ppm). 600 L of DPPH solution with a concentration of 160 g/mL was added to each tube. The tube was incubated at room temperature for 30 minutes. The absorbance was measured at 517 nm using UV-Vis spectrophotometry (Rafi et al. 2020). As a control, methanol and DPPH were employed. The experiments were carried out in triplicate (n=3). The inhibition percentage (%) was computed as follows:
The fractions’ reduced cholesterol levels were determined by comparing them to the blank absorbance (cholesterol solution). The cholesterol solution stock was created by combining 100 mg of cholesterol in 100 mL of ethanol (1000 ppm). H2SO4 (0.1 mL) and acetic anhydride (2 mL) were added to 0.025, 0.05, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, and 0.4 mL of cholesterol solution in a cuvette (BRAN UV cuvette) and diluted with ethanol solvent until 5 mL, respectively (blank solutions). To 0.5 mL of cholesterol solutions, 0.025, 0.05, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, and 0.4 mL of solution (1000 ppm) to concentrations of 100, 200, 400, and 600 ppm sample, H2SO4 (0.1 mL), acetic anhydride (2 mL), and ethanol until 5 mL were added, respectively. After being incubated for 30 minutes at room temperature, the absorbance of the solutions was measured at λ 423 nm (Musa et al. 2019).
Results and discussionExtraction and partition
The extraction efficiency from plant materials is influenced by several factors, including the chemical screening of phytochemicals, the partition method used, the size of sample particles, and the presence of interfering substances (Stalikas 2007). The extractions yield depends on the temperature, extraction time, solvent polarity, and sample content. In this work, the extracts of tombili seed were partitioned by using various range polarity of solvent from nonpolar (n- hexane) to polar (methanol). The final methanol fraction obtained 107.1 g (55.35%), n-hexane (14.7%) while ethyl acetate (31.7%). It can also be seen that the fraction yield of methanol is higher than ethyl acetate. These results show that the extraction yield.
Antioxidant activity of tombili seed extracts
DPPH was used to determine the antioxidant activity of tombili seed extracts. With the highest absorption band at 517 nm, DPPH was used as a stable organic free radical reagent. The absorption of this radical species was lost when the polarity of the solvent used in the extraction process of tombili seed was increased. Primary metabolites (proteins and carbohydrates) have been extracted in water and ethanol, resulting in a higher yield than ethyl acetate and n-hexane.
Accepted, resulting in a purple-to-yellow visual discoloration This radical reacts quickly with a wide range of samples and is sensitive enough to distinguish active ingredients at low concentrations (Esmaeili et al. 2015). The results of the antioxidant activity test of fractions shown in Table 1.
Antioxidant activity test of fractions of Caesalpiniabonducella seed.
Fractions
Concentration (ppm)
% inhibition1
% inhibition2
% inhibition3
IC50 μg/mL
Average (μg/mL)
n-Hexane
20
6.308
5.900
6.088
100.798 99.505 102.495
100,933±1.4995
25
9.227
10.041
9.803
30
12.409
12.008
11.764
35
14.994
15.010
14.860
40
16.856
17.080
16.718
Ethyl acetate
20
4.251
5.678
6.832
88.499 81.286 88.675
86.153±4.2161
25
8.299
10.972
9.420
30
12.348
13.474
14.078
35
14.372
1 6.554
17.184
40
17.712
20.692
18.840
Methanol
20
11.334
6.308
6.617
93.551 95.890 92.718
94.053±1.6445
25
12.938
9.227
10.084
30
16.248
12.409
11.974
35
18.115
14.994
15.336
40
22.066
17.786
18.907
Table 2 shows the in vitro DPPH radical scavenging ability of tomboli seed extract in different solvents. The n-hexane extract had the lowest DPPH radical inhibition, with an IC50 value of 100.933, while the ethyl acetate extract had the highest activity (86.153 g/mL). Although the DPPH radical scavenging activities of different solvent extracts were lower than those of ascorbic acid as a standard reference compound, this study shows that tombili seed extract has free radical scavenging properties as a primary antioxidant. Some free radical reactions are inhibited by phenolic and flavonoid compounds. Some phenolic compounds in ethyl acetate extracts, such as flavonoid and phenolic acids, demonstrated strong antioxidant activity via their reductive capacity (Rafi et al. 2020). The hydroxyl group of homoplantaginin and vernolic acid compounds was thought to be involved in free radical reduction. Considering the abundance of hydroxyl group of homoplantaginin it can be considered the biologically active from the fraction of ethyl acetate, thus allowing the antioxidant activity of the fraction toward the DPPH. Homoplantaginin contains several aromatic rings and hydroxyl group to implement the antioxidant mechanism. In comparison with the previous research done by Badami et al. (2003) using CaesalpiniaSappan yield a very strong antioxidant activity from the ethyl acetate extract while no further metabolites were explained from the literature. The secondary metabolites consisted of glucoside, homoplantaginin, and vernolic acid contributed to the fraction ability as antioxidant for the DPPH method analysis due to the hydroxyl group from the homoplantaginin to prevent free radicals from DPPH to oxidize the supposed protected molecule in practice as illustrated in Fig. 4 which illustrate the reaction of the molecule.
Cholesterol lowering activity test of fractions Caesalpiniabonducella seed.
Sample
Concentration (ppm)
% exhibited1
% exihibited2
% exihibited3
Average (%)
n-hexane
100
7.9
6.1
7
7
200
2
6.1
4.05
4.05
400
22.8
21.2
22
22
600
25.7
31.3
28.5
28.5
Positive Control
100
57.4
49.5
53.5
53.5
Ethyl acetate
100
15.9
13.8
14.9
14.9
200
43
40.6
41.8
41.8
400
67.9
67.5
67.7
67.7
600
80.9
82
81.5
81.5
Positive Control
100
90.9
91.6
91.4
91.3
Methanol
100
15.5
7.7
11.6
11.6
200
47.1
39.5
43.3
43.3
400
68.2
65.5
66.9
66.9
600
76.2
77.3
76.8
76.8
Positive Control
100
83.7
83.4
83.6
83.6
Cholesterol lowering activity of tombili seed extracts
The amount of cholesterol-lowering salt was reduced dose-dependently. The cholesterol level in the untreated fractions, also known as the negative control, was calculated to be 100%. All experiments were repeated three times (n = 3) and compared to negative and positive controls. Table 2 shows the outcome of the cholesterol-lowering activity.
It was first reported that tombili fractions have cholesterol-lowering properties. All fractions were carried out at concentrations of 100, 200, 400, and 600 ppm, respectively. The colorimetric experiment revealed an anti-cholesterol effect for n-hexane, ethyl acetate, and methanol fractions. The ethyl acetate component has the highest percentage. More than 50% of cholesterol can be detected in a 600ppm ethyl acetate fraction. Ethyl acetate has a greater effect than n-hexane and methanol.
Caused by the concentration of the chemical compound in fraction with the hydroxyl group that interacted with another functional group through hydrogen bonding. Unlike ethyl acetate, the intramolecular reaction of n-hexane and methanol fractions does not occur.
Identification of chemical content
The ethyl acetate fraction TEA3 was analyzed for its chemical composition using LC-MS/MS (Fig. 2). Further MS analysis of fraction was conducted on three major compounds 9,10-Dimethoxy-pterocarpan-3-O-β- D-glucoside, homoplantaginin, and vernolic acid are shown in Fig. 3. The profiles for the compounds are shown on Fig. 5.
Antioxidant chemical reaction of 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhyrazyl and homoplantaginin (5-hydroxy-2-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-6-methoxy-7-[(2S,3R,4S,5S,6R)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)oxan-2-yl]oxychromen-4-one).
The profiles of the identified five major compounds measured with LC/MS apparatus.
https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/802139
Role in its higher activity as an anticancer therapy. These outcomes Liquid chromatography-mass spectrophotometry (LC/MS) analysis of ethyl acetate fraction showed five obvious peaks at retention times of 7.34, 8.63, 9.31, 9.38, and 9.89 min as shown on Fig. 6. Based on the LC/MS/MS spectra database finding, the compounds 9,10-dimethoxy- pterocarpan-3β glucoside, homoplantaginin, and vernolic acid were identified at retention times 7.34, 8.63, and 9.31 min, respectively. The fragmentation resulted in five candidate masses with spectra (m/z) of 462.11621, 485.1406, 39.2252, 463.2671, and 281.127 are shown in Table 3.
The profiles of the identified five major compounds.
The mass spectrometer analysis on 9,10-dimethoxy- pterocarpan-3β- glucoside.
https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/802140Conclusion
The tested cholesterol lowering property of n-hexane, ethyl acetate, and methanol fraction from tombili seed was first reported. The highest antioxidant activity was shown in the ethyl acetate fraction. All fractions showed cholesterol lowering activity. Most importantly, the raised concentration of fractions exhibited a dose-dependent manner. The analysis of chemical content showed that the ethyl acetate fraction contains 9,10-Dimethoxy-pterocarpan-3β-glucoside, homoplantaginin, and vernolic acid compounds as lowering cholesterol agent.
Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank the Ministry of Research, Technology, and Higher Education of the Republic of Indonesia, which has provided research funding through PTUPT schemes in 2021. Thank you, Mrs. Sofa Fajriah, in the Indonesian Institute of Sciences for LC/MS measurements.
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