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Mini Review - (2016) Volume 4, Issue 5

A Critical Overview on the Extraction of Bioactive Compounds from Phaleria macrocarpa (Thymelaceae)

Alara OR* and Olalere OA
Department of Chemical Engineering, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Nigeria, E-mail: ruthoalao@gmail.com
*Corresponding Author: Alara OR, Department of Chemical Engineering, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, PMB 4000, Ogbomoso, Nigeria, Tel: +2348068566311 Email:

Abstract

Medicinal importance of many plants has drawn the attention of researchers to focus on unveiling their therapeutic molecules. Approximately, 25% of the commonly used medicines contain compounds isolated from plants. The World Health Organization has highlighted that many plants in the world have been discovered to possess high medicinal value. The presence of large amounts of polysaccharides, polyphenols, hydrosable tannins and other secondary metabolites makes these plants to be medicinal. Moreover, the plants may contain simple phenolic compounds, phenolic acids, coumarin, flavonoids, stilbenes, hydrosable and condensed tannins, lignin and lignans. The phenolic compounds and flavonoids in particular, are ubiquitous in plants and therefore, represent an important component of a normal human diet. Hence, this review tends to elucidate the extraction of bioactive compounds from Mahkota Dewa (Phaleria macrocarpa) and the extraction methods.

Keywords: Maceration; Microwave-assisted extraction; Subcritical water extraction; Supercritical-fluid extraction; Phaleria macrocarpa

Introduction

Mahkota Dewa illustrates in Figure 1 scientifically known as Phaleria macrocarpa is one of the important medicinal plants. This plant is commonly known as God’s crown [1], it originates from Papua Island located in the far east of the Indonesian archipelago, Indonesia and grows in tropical areas. Phaleria macrocarpa that belongs to Thymelaceae family has been traditionally used as an indispensable medicinal plant for centuries in Malaysia and Indonesia [2]. The Phaleria macrocarpa trees are thick, evergreen and grow in a tropical region up to 1,200 meters above sea level. The tree height ranges from 1 to 18 metres. The leaves are green and tapering with length and width ranging from 7-10 cm and 3-5 cm respectively. The flowers are either in green or maroon. The eclipse shaped fruits change from green to red when ripening. The diameter of the fruit is 3 cm and its grows on the trunks and branches of trees, and each fruit has 1 to 2 brown, ovoid and anatropous seeds [3].

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Figure 1: Phaleria macrocarpa tree.

The four major parts of Phaleria macrocarpa that are mostly enriched in medicine are: the stems, the leaves, the egg shell of the seeds and the fruits. The stems has been used in treating bone cancer [4], the leaves has been used for impotence, blood diseases, allergies, diabetes mellitus and tumor treatments [5,6]. Likewise, the egg shell of seeds are used for breast cancer, cervix cancer, lung diseases, liver and heart diseases treatments [7] and the fruits consisting of alkaloid, saponin, flavonoid and polyphenol and has been used as antioxidants [3].

Phaleria macrocarpa has a long history of ethnopharmacological usage. Due to the antihistamine [6], anti-oxidation [8] and antitumor effects in the plant, the stems, leaves, and fruits have been used as medicine. Empirically, Phaleria macrocarpa can be used to treat cancer [5], impotence, haemorrhoids, Diabetes mellitus [6], allergies, liver and heart diseases, kidney disorders, blood diseases, rheumatism, high blood pressure, stroke, migraine, various skin diseases, acne and so on [6,9,10].

Phaleria macrocarpa fruits can prevent arteriosclerosis and reduced cholesterol level in Japanese quails and in primary culture of rat hepatocytes [11,12]. Likewise, studies has been conducted on invivo and in-vitro hypercholesterolemia model to determine the effects of Phaleria macrocarpa fruit on blood lipid profile (total cholesterol, triglyceride, high density lipoprotein and low density lipoprotein) as well as LDL receptor, PCSK9 protein and mRNA expression [13]. Meanwhile, the work performed by Press [14] on DLBS1245, a Phaleria macrocarpa standardized extract of fresh fruit, revealed the anticancer activities of this plant. In the study as further, DLBS1425 showed an inhibition of proliferation on breast cancer cells, MDAMB-231 and MCF-7 cells. In addition, DLBS1425 also acts as an anti-inflammation and anti-angiogenesis [14]. Phaleria macrocarpa fruits and seeds had shown the existence of important biological activities in the extract in term of anti-microbial, anti-inflammatory and its antioxidant activity [8,15].

Phaleria macrocarpa has shown a potential value as an alternative medicine for improving the sexual strength in male adult Spraque Dawley rats by increasing the level of testosterone and libido behaviour which has suggested that Phaleria macrocarpa can be used in man’s fertility improvement [16]. Phaleria macrocarpa (Scheff.) Boerl has been studied to posses antidiabetic activity that inhibit alfaglukosidase enzyme and effect on mice induced sterptozotosin sugar level. The leaf and fruit Phaleria macrocarpa (Scheff.) Boerl have ACE inhibitors activity with IC50 values in the leaves was 189.13 μg/mLin PEE, 157.74 μg/mL in EEA and 101.52 μg/mL ME. While the IC50 values in the fruit was 161.7 μg/mL in PEE, 139.11 μg/mL in the EEA and 122.38 μg/mL in ME [17].

This review entails the theoreotial overview of extraction of bioactive compounds from Phaleria macrocarpa and the extraction methods that has been used [18].

Results

Table 1 and Figure 2 show the bioactive compounds that had been extracted from Phaleria macrocarpa which have medicinal values and their percentages respectively [19-23]. Table 2 reviews different methods of extraction and solvents that has been used in the extraction of bioactive compounds from Phaleria macrocarpa [24-29].

Part of Phaleria macrocarpa

Bioactive compounds present

Chemical Structure

Reference

Nut shell,fruit

2,4́,6-trihydroxy-4-methoxy-benzophenone-2-O-β-ᴅ-glucoside (Mahkoside A)
2,4́,6-trihydroxy-4-methoxy-6"-acetyl-benzophenone-2-O-β-ᴅ-glucoside (Mahkoside B).

equation

[10,21,23]

Fruit

Magniferin

equation

[21, 22]

Leaf

4,5-dihydroxy,4´-methoxybenzophenone-3-0-β- ᴅ -glucoside
(Phalerin)

equation

[20, 24]

Leaf

2,6,4’-trihydroxy-4-methoxybenzophenone

equation

[23]

Fruit

icariside C3

equation

[19]

Seed

fevicordin A

equation

[24]

Table 1: Bioactive compounds in Phaleria macrocarpa and their chemical structures.

Part of Phaleria macrocarpa

Methods of Extraction

Solvent

Bioactive compound/Extraction Yield

Reference

Nut shell

Refluxing

ethanol

Mahkoside A (206mg)
Mahkoside B (17mg)

[18]

Fruit

 

Subcritical water

Sohlex

 

Room temperature

 

Heat of reflux

 

Supercritical carbondioxide extraction

 

Water

Methanol
Ethanol
Water
Methanol
Ethanol
Water

Methanol
Ethanol
water

 

CO2

 

Magniferin
21.7mg/g

24.6mg/g
12.1mg/g
18.7mg/g
23.4mg/g
7.4mg/g
15.1mg/g

25.0mg/g
13.2mg/g
18.6mg/g

 

0mg/g

[20]

Fruit

Boiling

Water

13%

[13]

Seed

Solvent

n-hexane

55.32 g/100 g of dry sample

[2]

Seed

Supercritical carbon dioxide
Solvent

CO2

n-hexane

52.9 g per 100 g of dry sample
10.9 ml/g

[25]

Fruit

Solvent

Methanol

0.3234μmol DPPH/mg dry basis

[3]

Fruit

Liquid-liquid

Ethyl acetate

1736.989 μg/L of E2.2 compound

[26]

Bark

Maceration

Ethyl acetate
n-hexane
ethanol

IC50 = 10.15 g/mL
IC50 = 13.35 g/mL
IC50 = 12.92 g/mL

[7]

Fruit

Maceration

ethanol

 

[27]

Leaf

Maceration

methanol

61.2g

[22]

Leaf

Maceration

Ethyl acetate

25g

[23]

Fruit

Maceration

Methanol
Hexane
Chloroform
Ethyl acetate

47.2g
2.1g
3.1g
12.2g

[28]

Fruit

Boiling

Water

13%

[16]

Fruit

Maceration

CHCl3
Methanol

15.4g
96.0g

[19]

Fruit

Conversional

Methanol

42g

[29]

Seed

Maceration

Methanol

10g

[8]

Fruit

Sohlex

Petroleum ether
Methanol
Water

3.06%

18.5%
6.08%

[5]

Table 2: Methods of extraction, solvents used and the yield of Phaleria macrocarpa.

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Figure 2: Bioactive compounds in Phaleria macrocarpa.

Discussion

Table 1 shows different bioactive compounds isolated from Phaleria macrocarpa which include phenolic compounds [30] (luteonin, apigenin, tangeritin, quercetin, kaemferol, myricetin, isorhamnetin, pachypodol, hesteretin, naringenin, eriodictyol, catechins and epicatechins, genistein, daidzein, glycitein, cyanidin, delphinidin, malvidin, pelargonidin, peonidin, petunidin, aurones, xanthones, and condensed tannins); terpenes (isoprenoids) compounds [28] (29-norcucurbitacin, deacethyl fevicordin A, fevicordin A glucoside, and fevicordin D glucoside); alkaloid compounds [31] and benzophenone compounds (Makoside A [10], 4,5-dihydroxy-4´-metoxybenzophenone-3-Oglucoside [3], 4´-6-dihydroxy-4- metoxybenzophenone-2-O glucoside [1], 3,4,5-trihydroxyl-4´-methoxybenzophenone-3-O-β-D-glucoside [22], Phalerin [19], dodecanoic acid, palmitic acid, ethyl stearate, sucrose, vasorelaxant icariside C3, and mangiferin [10,22]).

Furthermore, different extraction techniques used in the isolation of Phaleria macrocarpa bioactive compounds include the solvent extraction, pressurized liquid extraction, subcritical water extraction, supercritical extraction, microwave-assisted extraction, ultrasonic-assisted extraction, enzyme-assisted extraction and instant controlled pressure drop-assisted extraction as shown in Table 2. Likewise, different solvents been used are water, ethanol, methanol, ethyl acetate, dichloromethane, hexane, chloroform and carbon(IV)oxide. These gave different extraction yields. From the study conducted so far, it can be clearly seen that methanol gave the highest yields as obtainable in Table 2. However, the yield from methanol had been considered as highly toxic and can therefore not be considered as generally recognised as safe (GRAS) solvent [20]. The methanol extract of Phaleria macrocarpa seeds exhibited the highest yields of total flavoid content, total phenolics and flavonoid contents [8].

Conclusion

In the extraction of bioactive compounds from Phaleria macrocarpa, the choice of extraction method is an essential factor in order to achieve quality and higher yields. During the preparation of Phaleria macrocarpa, the process such as grinding and drying can affected the efficiency and phytochemical constituents of the final extracts. In conclusion, there is no specific extraction methods that is the ideal method but each extraction procedures has its own uniqueness. However, the most suitable methods are microwaveassisted, hydrodistillation, maceration, supercritical fluid extraction and subcritical water extraction but supercritical fluid extraction gives the highest yield of extracts.

Acknowledgements

I acknowledge Universiti Malaysia Pahang for their contributions towards the success of this work.

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Citation: Alara OR, Olalere OA (2016) A Critical Overview on the Extraction of Bioactive Compounds from Phaleria macrocarpa (Thymelaceae). Nat Prod Chem Res 4:232.

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