Structures of Two New Flavonoids and Effects of Licorice Phenolics on Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus Species

Since our previous study revealed that several licorice phenolics have antibacterial effects on methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), and suppressive effects on the oxacillin resistance of MRSA, we further investigated effectiveness of licorice constituents on vancomycin-resistant Ente...

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Autores principales: Eerdunbayaer, Orabi, Mohamed A. A., Aoyama, Hiroe, Kuroda, Teruo, Hatano, Tsutomu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6270663/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24686577
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules19043883
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Sumario:Since our previous study revealed that several licorice phenolics have antibacterial effects on methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), and suppressive effects on the oxacillin resistance of MRSA, we further investigated effectiveness of licorice constituents on vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE) bacteria, and purified 32 phenolic compounds. Two flavonoids among them were characterized structurally, and identified their structures as demethylglycyrol (31) and 5,7-di-O-methylluteone (32), respectively. Examination of antibacterial effects of licorice phenolics showed that 3-arylcoumarins such as licoarylcoumarin (9) and glycycoumarin (26), and 2-arylcoumarones such as gancaonin I (17), have moderate to potent antibacterial effects on the VRE strains used in this study.

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