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Inhibiting Activity of Garlic on a Drug Metabolizing Enzyme CYP3A4 (마늘의 약물대사효소 CYP3A4 저해 활성)

  • Lee, Eun-Hee;Cha, Bae-Cheon
    • Korean Journal of Pharmacognosy
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    • v.37 no.2 s.145
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    • pp.97-102
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    • 2006
  • Garlic(Allium sativum Linn) is widely used as a common condiment for a variety of foods and beverages. It has been well known that fresh garlic and garlic supplement of commercial preparations have various therapeutic properties including antimicrobial activity, antiplatelet aggregation, antihypertension, and cholesterol-lowering effects, which contribute to its increasing uses for an alternative medicine. Allicin(diallyl thiosulfinate), the major bioactive components of garlic, is formed by alliinase cleavage of the naturally occurring alliin upon crushing or mincing of garlic, and is the progenitor of a number of other products, such as diallyl disulfide. CYP3A4, heme-containing monooxygenase, is a key enzyme responsible for drug metabolism. Therefor, in the present study, we isolated and examined the compounds with CYP3A4-inhibiting activities from garlic. Among EtOAc extracts of garlic, we found that N-p-coumaroyltyramine and N-feruloyltyramine showed remarkable CYP3A4-inhibiting activities, compared to diallyl disulfide. Structures of the isolated active compounds were established by chemical and spectroscopic means.

Antimutagenic Compounds Identified from the Chloroform Fraction of Garlic (Allium sativum) (마늘의 쿨로로포름 분획에서 동정된 항돌연변이 물질)

  • 김소희;김정옥;이숙희;박건영;박희준;정해영
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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    • v.20 no.3
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    • pp.253-259
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    • 1991
  • Methanol extract of garlic was fractionated to chloroform and aqueous fractions. The cholorform fraction possessed the highest antimutagenic activity in Salmonella typhimurium TA 100 and TA98, and was further fractionaed into four Allium sativum chromatography fractions (ASC F1, 2, 3 and 4) by column and thin layer chromatographies. The ASC F2 exhibited the higher antimutagenic activity and contained 18 chemical compounds tentatively identifed by GC-MS, NMR and FT-IR. Among the 18 compounds, methyl linoleate was a major compound to exhibit the antimutagenicity.

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Effect of Various Garlic Extracts on Hyperlipidemia Rats Induced by Triton WR-1339 (추출조건을 달리한 마늘 추출물이 Triton WR-1339 유발 고지혈증 흰주의 체내 지질대사에 미치는 영향)

  • Chong, Myong-Soo;Kim, Hae-Ja;Cho, Hwa-Eun;Choi, Yun-Hee;Han, Choong-Ho;Lee, Ki-Nam
    • Journal of Society of Preventive Korean Medicine
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.69-80
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    • 2009
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of garlic(Allium sativum L.) extracts with extraction conditions on hyperlipidemia prevention. The extracts prepared for garlic by hot temperature extraction(HG), low temperature extraction(LG), UMPM extraction(UG), fermentation(FG) and black garlic hot temperature(BG) method. To evaluate of hypolipidemia effect in vivo, we examined serum and liver lipid profiles of Triton WR-1339 induced hyperlipidemia rats. Serum triglyceride and total cholesterol levels in UG group were significantly higher than control group. Liver total cholesterol content in LG group and liver triglyceride in UG group was significantly lower than control group.

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Changes in Physiologcal Properties of Garlic (Allium sativum L.) by Storage and Marketing Condition after Storage (저장 및 저장후 유통조건에 따른 마늘(Allium sativum L.)의 생리적 특성 변화)

  • 최선태;장규섭
    • Food Science and Preservation
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.105-110
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    • 1998
  • To find out suitable storage and marketing condition, northern type 'seosan' garlic was stored for 3 months at controlled atmosphere(CA), modified atmosphere(MA), low(0~1$^{\circ}C$) and room temperature(20$\pm$5$^{\circ}C$), and then marketed at low(2~3$^{\circ}C$) and room temperature (20$\pm$5$^{\circ}C$)after storage. The physiological properties of garlic were investigated among treatments. The garlic respiration increased after 2 months at room temperature storage, which seem to be dormancy break time. During storage of garlic by CA, MA condition, sprouting and weight loss were prevented effectively by suppress of respiration, and hardness was maintained higher then those of the others. Decay rate occurred 8.1% at room temperature storage, 2% at MA storage but didn't occurred at CA and low temperature storages. When marketed at room and low temperature after storage, increment of respiration and sprouting were delayed, and changes of weight and hardness were low in garlics stored at CA and MA. Decay rate occurred high in garlics stored at MA and room temperature.

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In vitro Effects of Plant Extracts, and Phytohormones on Mycelial Growth of Anthracnose Fungi

  • Alam, Shahidul;Han, Kee-Don;Lee, Jae-Min;Hur, Hyeon;Shim, Jae-Ouk;Chang, Kwang-Choon;Lee, Tae-Soo;Lee, Min-Woong
    • Mycobiology
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    • v.32 no.3
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    • pp.134-138
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    • 2004
  • Water extracts of six plants, such as Allium sativum, A. cepa, Zingiber officinale, Platycodon grandiflorum, Oenanthe javanica, and Capsella brusapastoris, were tested in vitro for inhibitory activity against mycelial growth of anthracnose fungi, Colletotrichum gloeosporioides, C. dematium, and C. coccodes. Among the plant extracts, an Allium sativum extract has good inhibitory effects in all the fungi. Four phytohormones namely, IAA(indole-3-acetic acid), NAA(a-Naphthyl acetic acid), 2,4-D(2,4-Dichloro phenoxy acetic acid) and BAP(Benzyl adenine purine) were used to find out the role over mycelial growth of these fungi. All the concentrations of BAP have good inhibitory effect against mycelial growth of these fungi than that of other tested plant hormones.

Multiple Shoots Regeneration and In vitro Bulblet Formation from Garlic Callus

  • Kim Soon-Seob;Guo De-Ping;Jung Do-Cheol;Kwon Soon-Tae
    • Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.95-99
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    • 2003
  • The leaf segments of garlic (Allium sativum L.) were cultured in vitro and determined optimal concentration of plant growth regulators and sugars for callus induction, multiple shoots regeneration and in vitro bulblet formation. Highest yield of callus was observed in the leaf segment culture on Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium supplemented with 1.0 mg/L 2,4-D, 30 g/L sucrose and 8 g/L agar. Regeneration rate of multiple shoots from callus was high in the MS medium supplemented with kinetin 3.0 + NAA 3.0 mg/L or SA 1.0 + NAA 3.0 mg/L, containing 30 g/L sucrose. High rate of bulblet formation was observed as the concentration of jasmonic acid increased from 0.5 to 2.0 mg/L in medium, whereas addition of gibberellic acid significantly suppressed bulblet formation. The rate of in vitro bulbing was as high as $96\%$ in MS medium supplemented with 2.0 mg/L jasmonic acid and 120 g/l sucrose after two month culture at $25{\pm}1^{\circ}C$ under 16 hours day light.

Characteristic of Antibiotic Resistance of Foodborne Pathogens Adapted to Garlic, Allium sativum L.

  • Moon, Bo-Youn;Lee, Eun-Jin;Park, Jong-Hyun
    • Food Science and Biotechnology
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    • v.15 no.4
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    • pp.511-515
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    • 2006
  • Antibiotic resistance of foodborne pathogens adapted to garlic (Allium sativum Linn.) was determined in order to understand the relationship between antibiotic resistance and garlic. The Gram (-) strains of Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhimurium and the Gram (+) strains of Bacillus cereus and Staphylococcus aureus were subcultured consecutively in a garlic broth, and the surviving colonies on the agar were selected as the adapted strains. Minimal inhibitory concentrations (MIC) for 15 antibiotics on the adapted strains were determined on Muller-Hinton Infusion agar. Adaptation to 1.3%(v/v) garlic juice increased MIC for vancomycin, aminoglycoside, and erythromycin on B. cereus, and for ampicillin and erythromycin on E. coli O157:H7. MIC of aminoglycosides, chloramphenicol, and vancomycin on the adapted S. aureus increased. The adapted S. typhimurium was more resistant to penicillin and vancomycin than the non-treated strain. The adapted S. typhimurium and S. aureus lost their antibiotic resistance in non-garlic stress conditions. However, the adapted B. cereus was still resistant to erythromycin and vancomycin, and the adapted E. coli was also resistant to erythromycin. Antibacterial garlic might increase the antibiotic resistance of E. coli, B. cereus, S. aureus, and S. typhimurium and this resistance can continue even without the stress of garlic. Therefore, garlic as a food seasoning could influence the resistance of such pathogens to these antibiotics temporarily or permanently.

Identification of an Essential Tryptophan Residue Residue in Alliinase from Garlic (Allium sativum) by Chemical Modification

  • Jin, Yeong Nam;Choe, Yong Hun;Yang, Cheol Hak
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.68-76
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    • 2001
  • We have employed chemical modification to identify amino acids essential for the catalytic activity of alliinase (EC 4.4.1.4) from garlic (Allium sativum). Alliinase degrades S-alkyl-L cysteine sulfoxides, causing the characteristic odor of garlic. The activity of alliinase was rapidly and completely inactivated by N-bromosuccinimide(NBS) and slightly decreased by succinic anhydride and N-acetylimidazole. These results indicate that tryptophanyl, lysyl, and tyrosyl residues play an important role in enzyme catalysis. The reaction of alliinase with NBA yielded a characteristic decrease in both the absorbance at 280 nm and the intrinsic fluorescence at 332 nm with increasing reagent concentration of NBS, consistent with the oxidation of tryptophan residues. Kinetic analysis, fluorometric titration of tryptophans and correlation to residual alliinase activity showed that modification of only one residue present on alliinase led to complete inhibition of alliinase activity. To identify this essential tryptophan residue, we employed chemical modification by NBS in the presence and absence of the protecting substrate analogue, S-ethyl-L-cysteine (SEC) and N-terminal sequence analysis of peptide fragment isolated by reverse phase-HPLC. A fragment containing residues 179-188 was isolated. We conclude that Trp182 is essential for alliinase activity.