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NATURAL PRODUCT RESEARCH
Volume 26, Issue 7, Pages 609-618Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/14786419.2010.538395
Keywords
Melastoma malabathricum; Sendudok; pentacyclic triterpenoids; acylated kaempferol glycosides; antibacterial activity
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- Universiti Sains Malaysia [304/PKIMIA/633132]
- USM-TWAS
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The aqueous methanolic extracts of Melastoma malabathricum L. exhibited antibacterial activity when assayed against seven microorganisms by the agar diffusion method. Solvent fractionation afforded active chloroform and ethyl acetate fractions from the leaves and the flowers, respectively. A phytochemical study resulted in the identification of ursolic acid (1), 2 alpha-hydroxyursolic acid (2), asiatic acid (3), beta-sitosterol 3-O-beta-D-glucopyranoside (4) and the glycolipid glycerol 1,2-dilinolenyl-3-O-beta-D-galactopyanoside (5) from the chloroform fraction. Kaempferol (6), kaempferol 3-O-alpha-L-rhamnopyranoside (7), kaempferol 3-O-beta-D-glucopyranoside (8), kaempferol 3-O-beta-D-galactopyranoside (9), kaempferol 3-O-(2 '',6 ''-di-O-E-p-coumaryl)-beta-D-galactopyranoside (10), quercetin (11) and ellagic acid (12) were found in the ethyl acetate fraction. The structures of these compounds were determined by chemical and spectral analyses. Compounds 1-4, the flavonols (6 and 11) and ellagic acid (12) were found to be active against some of the tested microorganisms, while the kaempferol 3-O-glycosides (7-9) did not show any activity, indicating the role of the free 3-OH for antibacterial activity. Addition of p-coumaryl groups results in mild activity for 10 against Staphylococcus aureus and Bacillus cereus. Compounds 2-5, 7 and 9-12 are reported for the first time from M. malabathricum. Compound 10 is rare, being reported only once before from a plant, without assignment of the double bond geometry in the p-coumaryl moiety.
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