Taxonomic group: plant / Streptophyta
(Phylum: Streptophyta)
NCBI PubMed ID: 10857921Publication DOI: 10.1016/s0168-1605(00)00218-xJournal NLM ID: 8412849Correspondence: pia.vuorela

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Institutions: Department of Pharmacy, University of Helsinki, Division of Pharmacognosy, Helsinki, Finland, Department of Applied Chemistry and Microbiology, University of Helsinki, Division of Food Chemistry, Helsinki, Finland, Department of Chemistry, Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
Plant phenolics, especially dietary flavonoids, are currently of growing interest owing to their supposed functional properties in promoting human health. Antimicrobial screening of 13 phenolic substances and 29 extracts prepared from Finnish plant materials against selected microbes was conducted in this study. The tests were carried out using diffusion methods with four to nine microbial species (Aspergillus niger, Bacillus subtilis, Candida albicans, Escherichia coli, Micrococcus luteus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermidis). Flavone, quercetin and naringenin were effective in inhibiting the growth of the organisms. The most active plant extracts were purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria L.) against Candida albicans, meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria (L.) Maxim.), willow herb (Epilobium angustifolium L.), cloudberry (Rubus chamaemorus L.) and raspberry (Rubus idaeus L.) against bacteria, and white birch (Betula pubescens Ehrh.), pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) and potato (Solanum tuberosum. L.) against gram-positive Staphylococcus aureus.
antimicrobial activity; inhibition; flavonoids; phenolics; plants; berries
Structure type: oligomer
C
27H
30O
16Location inside paper: p. 8, Table 3, Table 4, rutin
Trivial name: rutin, rutoside, rutin, quercetin rutinoside, rutoside, quercetin 3-O-rutinose, quercetin-3-O-rutinoside, quercetin 3-O-rutinoside
Compound class: saponin glycoside, glycoside, flavonoid glycoside, flavonol glycoside, flavone glycoside
Contained glycoepitopes: IEDB_136105,IEDB_142488,IEDB_144144,IEDB_146664,IEDB_225177,IEDB_885823,IEDB_983931,SB_192
NCBI Taxonomy refs (TaxIDs): 33090Reference(s) to other database(s): CCSD:
50720, CBank-STR:3399
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