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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Planta Medica International Open 2020; 07(03): e106-e113
DOI: 10.1055/a-1174-1197
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Cytotoxic, Anti-bacterial, and Wound-healing Activity of Prenylated Phenols from the Kurdish Traditional Medicinal Plant Onobrychis Carduchorum (Fabaceae)

Marco Clericuzio 
1   DISIT - Università del Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria, Italy
,
Faiq H. S. Hussain
2   Medical Analysis Department, Faculty of Science, Tishk International University, Erbil, Kurdistan Region-Iraq
,
Hawraz Ibrahim M. Amin
3   Chemistry Department, College of Science, Salahaddin University-Erbil, Erbil, Iraq
4   Department of Pharmacy, Paitaxt Technical Institute-Private, Erbil, Iraq
,
Elisa Bona
5   DISIT - Università del Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli, Italy
,
Elisa Gamalero
1   DISIT - Università del Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria, Italy
,
Novello Giorgia
1   DISIT - Università del Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria, Italy
,
Rosamaria Lappano
6   Department of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Calabria, Rende, Italy.
,
Marianna Talia
6   Department of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Calabria, Rende, Italy.
,
Marcello Maggiolini
6   Department of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Calabria, Rende, Italy.
,
Miriam Bazzicalupo
7   DISTAV – Università degli Studi di Genova, Genova, Italy
,
Laura Cornara
7   DISTAV – Università degli Studi di Genova, Genova, Italy
› Author Affiliations Funding: This work was financially supported by Tishk International University, Erbil, Iraq, and by the University of Eastern Piedmont (UPO), according to the Cultural Co-operation Framework Memorandum of Understanding between the two Institutions.
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Abstract

Onobrychis carduchorum (Fabaceae) is a plant widely employed in Kurdish traditional medicine to cure wounds, inflammations, and other skin diseases. We could isolate ten different polyphenols from the acetone extract of this plant: 1–4 are isoflavones, having a genistein skeleton; 5–7 are flavanones, having a naringenin skeleton; and 8–10 are prenylated dihydro-stilbenes. In particular, 8–10 have been isolated, so far, only from Glycyrrhiza glabra (liquorice). Many of the above prenylated phenols showed significant toxicity on some human breast cancer cell lines, and a relevant growth inhibition of Staphylococcus aureus strains. In addition, 9 and 10 had marked wound healing activity. It is suggested that these bioactivities are responsible, at least partly, for the plant’s traditional use.

Key words

Preparative Chromatography Extraction - Isolation - lc-MS Natural Products Analysis - Antimicrobial Molecular Targets and Activities - Fabaceae - Onobrychis carduchorum - Phenolics Natural Products Classes

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Received: 02 December 2019
Received: 23 January 2020

Accepted: 06 May 2020

Article published online:
05 June 2020

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