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Biological and Chemical Evaluation of Secondary Metabolites from Endophytic Fungi Isolated from Egyptian Ornamental Plants

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Abstract

Endophytic microorganisms are considered as a promising source for the production of bioactive secondary metabolites to treat the drug resistant microbes. Fifteen fungal isolates were isolated from four ornamental plants grown in Egypt namely; Ricinus communis, Hibiscus rosa-sinensis, Morus alba and Ficus nitida. The fungal isolates were screened for their ability to produce bioactive secondary metabolites by cultivating them on rice medium for 14 days. The metabolites were extracted by ethyl acetate followed by acetone. The obtained extracts were tested for their antimicrobial activities. Scale-up fermentation was performed for three promising fungal strains isolated from Ricinus communis and Hibiscus rosa-sinensis. Antioxidant activities, total phenolic content, anticancer activities as well as GC/Mass studies were carried out for their extracts. The isolated fungal strains under investigation were identified using the molecular technique 18SrRNA. The fungal isolates were identified as Alternaria tenuissima isolate ANAS-9, Phoma herbarum isolate ANAS-10 and Aspergillus tamarii ANAS-13 with accession numbers MW662645, MW662651 and MW662652, respectively. High total phenolic content, potent antioxidant and Gram+/- antimicrobial as well as antifungal activities have been evidenced for the three new isolates. Both ANAS-9 and ANAS-10 had very strong anticancer effect on liver (HepG2) and breast (MCF-7) cancer cell lines, while ANAS-13 reported moderate cytotoxicity against both of them. This study concluded that these fungal strains have potent biological activities for the treatment of multidrug resistance pathogenic bacteria, as well as anticancer and anti-inflammatory agents' production.

DOI

10.21608/ejchem.2022.173108.7160

Keywords

Endophytes, fungi, Antimicrobial, antioxidant, Anticancer, GC/MS, 18SrRNA

Authors

First Name

Salma

Last Name

Omar

MiddleName

Mahmoud

Affiliation

Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science. Cairo University, Egypt.

Email

salma.omar2512@gmail.com

City

Cairo

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First Name

Abd- Elgawad

Last Name

Fahmi ,

MiddleName

Ali

Affiliation

Cairo University

Email

abdelgawad5@hotmail.com

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Orcid

0000-0002-7259-873X

First Name

Mariam

Last Name

Abdur-Rahman

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science. Cairo University, Egypt.

Email

mariam@sci.cu.edu.eg

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-

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https://orcid.org/00

First Name

Mosad

Last Name

Ghareeb

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-

Affiliation

Medicinal Chemistry, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department, Theodor Bilharz Research Institute, Giza, Egypt

Email

mosad_tbri@hotmail.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Abdelaziz

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

National research Center

Email

mohabomerna@yahoo.ca

City

-

Orcid

0000-0001-9151-5920

Volume

66

Article Issue

8

Related Issue

42250

Issue Date

2023-08-01

Receive Date

2022-11-06

Publish Date

2023-08-01

Page Start

267

Page End

282

Print ISSN

0449-2285

Online ISSN

2357-0245

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/article_273784.html

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273,784

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297

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Journal

Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Chemistry

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/

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Biological and Chemical Evaluation of Secondary Metabolites from Endophytic Fungi Isolated from Egyptian Ornamental Plants

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Created At

30 Dec 2024