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Anti-inflammatory and antioxidative activity of anthocyanins from purple basil leaves induced by selected abiotic elicitors

  • Food Chem. 2015 Apr 1:172:71-7. doi: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2014.09.043.
Urszula Szymanowska 1,  Urszula Złotek 2,  Monika Karaś 1,  Barbara Baraniak 1
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Affiliations

  • 1 Department of Biochemistry and Food Chemistry, University of Life Sciences, Skromna Str. 8, 20-704 Lublin, Poland.
  • 2 Department of Biochemistry and Food Chemistry, University of Life Sciences, Skromna Str. 8, 20-704 Lublin, Poland. Electronic address: urszula.zlotek@up.lublin.pl.
PMID: 25442525 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2014.09.043
Abstract

This paper investigates changes in the anti-inflammatory and antioxidative activity of anthocyanins from purple basil (Ocimum basilicum L.) leaves induced by arachidonic acid (AA), jasmonic acid (JA) and β-aminobutyric acid (BABA). The anthocyanins content was significantly increased by all elicitors used in this study; however, no increase was observed in the antioxidant activity of the analyzed extracts. Additionally, a significant decrease by about 50% in the ability to chelate Fe(II) was noted. Further, an increase in the potential anti-inflammatory activity of basil anthocyanins was observed after treatment with each the abiotic elicitor. The IC50 value for Lipoxygenase inhibition was almost twice as low after elicitation as that of the control. Also, cyclooxygenase inhibition by anthocyanins was stimulated by abiotic elicitors, except for JA-sample. Additionally, HPLC-analysis indicated that elicitation with AA, JA and BABA caused increases in content most of all anthocyanin compounds.

Keywords

Anthocyanins; Antioxidant properties; Elicitation; Enzyme inhibition; Purple basil.

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