Bioenhancing and Antimycobacterial Agents from Ammannia multiflora

Abstract

The methanolic extract of Ammannia multiflora (Lythraceae) showed significant bioenhancing activity with the antibiotic nalidixic acid. Bioassay-guided fractionation of MeOH extract resulted in the isolation of a novel compound, 2,5-bis-(3,3′-hydroxyaryl)tetrahydrofuran, named as ammaniol (5), along with 9 other known compounds (1–4, 6–10). Furthermore, compound 4-hydroxy-α-tetralone (1) was converted into five semisynthetic acyl derivatives, 1A–1E, which were evaluated along with compounds 1, 5, 6, 9, and 10 for their bioenhancing activity in combination with nalidixic acid against the two strains, CA8000 and DH5α, of Escherichia coli. The results showed that the methanolic extract of A. multiflora and compounds 1 and 9 possessed significant bioenhancing activity and reduced the dose of nalidixic acid fourfold while compounds 5, 6, 10 and semisynthetic derivatives 1A–1E reduced the dose of nalidixic acid twofold. Compound 5 was also tested for antimycobacterial activity against Mycobacterium H37Rv and was found to show moderate activity (MIC 25 µg/mL) against this pathogen.

Key words

Ammannia multiflora - Lythraceae - bioenhancers - antimycobacterial - vlc

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