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the increase of the spherosomes and the filling of the vacuoles by the osmiumphilic substance like in the case of the rose.
4. The fungal secretion of the fragrant substances to the environment is supposed to be one of the regulatory functions of their synthesis ("mechanism of overfill").
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Semyonova Ye.F., Shpichka A.I., Presnyakova Ye.V., Mezhennaya N.A. Processes of essential oil accumulation in petals of Rosa (Rosaceae) and Mycelium Eremothecium (Eremotheciaceae). // Bull. of the State Nikit. Botan. Gard. - 2016. - № 118. - P. 25-33.
The plantation cultivation of an oil-bearing rose is not able to cover the increasing demand of the industry. Therefore, the interest to fungi strains Eremothecium ashbyi Guilliermond and E. gossypii Kurtzman, is rising. The features of secretory structures of the Rosa and Eremothecium species were found out. The investigation of biosynthesis, accumulation, and secretion of essential oils with a rose scent is crucial either for development of new ways to produce them or for rating the biological role of Rosa and Eremothecium secondary metabolites.
Key words: essential oil; oil accumulation; spherosomes; secretory structures; Rosa; Eremothecium
PLANT BIOCHEMISTRY
UDK 582.929.4:577.19
BIOLOGICALLY ACTIVE SUBSTANCES OF NEPETA CATARIA L.
Anfisa Yevgenyevna Paly, Ivan Nikolayevich Paly, Natalya Vladimirovna Marko,
Valery Dmitriyevich Rabotyagov
Nikita Botanical Gardens - National Scientific Centre 298648, the Republic of Crimea, the city of Yalta, urb.vil.Nikita onlabor@yandex .ru
Introduction
Nepeta Cataria L. is a perennial plant that belongs to Lamiaceae family. Overground mass of the cultivar possesses pretty lemon fragrance, pungent taste and takes a great interest in the field of food, perfume and soil boiling industries.
Various preparations that include Nepeta Cataria are used in folk medicine as spasmolytic, carminative, tonic and stimulative remedy. Besides, extracts of its overground part can be used to treat gastrointestinal and respiratory diseases, stagnations of gallbladder and bile passages, histerical and depressive attacks [6, 12].
Complex of biologically active substances, such as volatile compounds, phenolic substances and vitamins in plant material of Nepeta cataria specifies its medicinal properties [5, 8, 14].
Essential oil (EO) has got a fine herbaceous and citrus fragrance and presents high antimicrobial action. Content and component composition of Nepeta cataria EO ranges a lot what depends upon ecological and genetical factors. Essential oil includes geranial, geraniol, camphora, carvacrol, caryophyllene, nepetalactone, nerol, citral, citronellal, citronellol and eugenol [9, 15]. Phenolic compounds of Nepeta cataria are presented by hydroxicoric acids -rosemary, caffeic, n-cumarin, ferulic acids; and flavonoids - flavones (apigenin, lutheoline) and flavonols (quercetin, kaempferol, myricetin) [2, 7, 8].
Long-term research in Nepeta cataría introduction and selection has been kept on within NBG-NSC, as a result there is a new sort - Peremozhets-3, which is characterized by high crop capacity and EO output [1].
In terms of introduction 2010, new Nepeta cataría specimen was involved, it possesses lemon fragrance and can be a source of high crop capacity under conditions of the Steppe Crimea.
Purpose of this work was to investigate qualitative and quantitative composition of biologically active substance in water-ethanol extract of new promising Nepeta cataría specimen.
Objects and methods of the research
Overground part of Nepeta cataría, yielded during mass blooming became the study research.
Essential oil was extracted out of raw material applying method of hydrodistillation by Ginsberg, with further conversion into dry mass. Distillation time of EO - 1 hour.
Concentration of volatile substances was determined in water-ethanol extract (hereinafter extract), prepared from air-dry plant material. Raw material was dried in the aired room getting constant mass. Extraction was conducted by 50% ethyl alcohol having ratio of raw material and leach - 1:20 (preparation took 10 days at room temperature).
Component composition of volatile substances was determined applying chromatograph Agilent Technology 6890 with mass-spectrum detector 5973. Chromatographic heater - capillary HP-1 (30 m long); inside diameter - 0,25 mm. Thermostat temperature was programmed in a range 50-250 0C with velocity of 40C/min. Injector temperature - 2500C. Carrier gas is helium, stream velocity - 1,0 sm3/min. Transfer from gas chromatograph to mass spectrometric detector was heated till 2300C. Source temperature was kept up at 2000C. Electronic ionization was carried out at 70 eV with mass range m/z from 29 till 450. Identification of essential oil components was guided by comparison results obtained in terms of chemical substances mass spectra with publishing data of mass spectra NIST05-WILEY2007 (about 500000 of mass spectra).
Component composition of phenol substances was determined applying chromatograph "Agilent Technologies" (model 1100), completed with running vacuum degasifier G1379A, 4-channeled pump of low pressure gradient G13111A, automotive injector G1313A, thermostat of heaters G13116A, diode-matrix detector G1316A, fluorescent detector G1315B. Chromatograph heater 2,1mm x 150 mm, filled with octadecilsilil sorbent "ZORBAX" SB-C18 and 3,5 mkm graining was applied during analysis. Gradient regime of chromatography that foresees changes of component A (0,1% orthophosphoric acid, 0,3%-tetrahydrofuran, 0,018%- triethylamine) and B (methanol) components in eluting mixture. Feed rate of mobile phase made 0,25 sm /min; working pressure of eluent - 240-300 kPa; sample volume - 2 mkl; scanning time 0,5 sec, scale of measurements - 1,0.
Identification of phenol substances was carried out according to time of standard keeping and spectrum characteristics (parameters of spectrum reading - each peak 190-600 nm; wave length - 280, 313, 350, 371 nm.
Results and discussion
As a result of introduction work there is a new specimen of Nepeta cataría. Plants were cultivated in the steppe zone of the Republic of Crimea, where they are able to reach 179-190 sm and present a high crop capacity up to 70 center/ha. New specimen was marked out due to organoleptic method, as one with bright lemon fragrance. Mass fraction of essential oil inhere made 0,11% from raw material and 0,51 from the absolutely dry material (2,4% of dry substances).
Investigating component composition and concentration of biologically active substances in Nepeta cataria water-ethanol extract it was found out that concentration of volatile substances made 233 per 100 g of dry plant material (table 1, fig.1). Among volatile compounds 15 components were identified. The following volatile compounds are typical for extract of this specimen: monoterpenic alcohols, aldehydes, lactones, as well as sesquiterpenoids. The dominant components of the extract are nepetalactone (34%), citronellol (33%) and geranial (10%). At the same time considerable content of geraniol (7,96%) and caryophyllenoxide (6,19%). Findings coordinate with publishing data [3, 4, 8].
Table 1
Component composition of volatile compounds in N.cataria water-ethanol extract
Component Mass fraction, %
acetic acid 2,70
6-methyl-5-hepten-2-one 0,70
phenylacetaldehyde 1,10
6-methyl-3,5-heptadien-2-one 0,23
phocitral A 0,84
citronellal 1,60
citronellol 33,13
geraniol 7,96
geranial 10,45
geranylformiat 0,56
nepetalactone 33,81
caryophyllene 0,50
caaryophyllenoxide 6,19
myristinic acid 0,35
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Fig.1 Chromatogram of volatile compounds in N.cataria water-ethanol extract
The principal components that specify qualitative parameters of N.cataria essential oil are neral, geranial and geraniol. At the same time nepetalactone that also enters this composition causes high antimicrobial, repellent and insecticidal effect of the EO. It's a well-
known fact, that nepetalactone can act as pheromones for aphides and protect from orthopterans [6, 12]. Typical fragrance of nepetalactone attracts animals of cat family [13].
It was determined that N.cataria extract contains high concentration of phenolic compounds, carotenoids and ascorbic acid (table 2).
Table 2
Concentration of biologically active substances in N.cataria extract
Biologically active substances Concentration, mg/100 g
Phenolic compounds 2218,0 ± 64,0
Ascorbic acid 308,0 ±12,0
Carotenoids 2,8 ± 0,07
Phenolic compounds of N.cataria are presented by hydroxicoric acids and flavonoids. Concentration of hydroxicoric acids made 1,4 g/100 g of air-dry plant material, flavonoids -0,8 g/100 g.
Studying component composition of the extract phenolic substances 12 components were revealed, while 8 of them were identified (table 3, fig.2).
Table
Component composition of N.cataria phenolic compounds
Component Output time concentration, mg/100 g
4- caffeoylquinic acid 19.91 84,94
5- caffeoylquinic acid 20.42 100,58
chlorogenic acid 26.09 1113,00
lutheoline-7-diglicoside 28.82 133,81
«-cumaroil glycoside 30.62 31,34
«-coumaric acid 31.91 55,00
apigenin-7-diglicoside 32.79 499,88
lutheoline-7-glycoside 33.67 43,43
apigenin-7-glycoside 34.42 33,08
acacitine-7-glycoside 35.7 65,33
apigenin 37.54 27,92
Unidentified 38.46 29,31
Dominant components are chlorogenic acid and diglicoside of apigenin flavone, their concentration makes 50,0% and 22,5% respectively, from the total content of phenolic substances; our findings coordinate with data of other scientists [9, 10]. Chlorogenic acid possesses strong antioxidant, antivirus, antibacterial antifungal and probiotical properties, presents hypoglycemic, hypocholesteremic, anticancer and hepatoprotective action. Inhibiting oxidation of lipoproteid with low concentration, what causes artery damages, chlorgenic acid makes it possible to prevent cardiovascular diseases [5, 10]. High concentration of chlorogenic acid, apigenin glycosides and lutheoline isomers in N.cataria new specimen extract explains its biological value.
Flavones, lutheoline and apigenin reveal a wide range of biological activity as well. They possess anti-inflammatory, spasmolytic, antitumoral, immunoregulatory and antiallergic action, high antioxidant and weak antibacterial activity [3, 11].
Fig.2 Chromatogram of N.cataria phenolic compounds
In this way overground part of study case (N.cataria specimen) is of great biological value due to monoterpenic aldehydes (nepetalactone, citronellol and geranial), phenolcarboxylic acids (mainly cholorogenic acid), ascorbic acid and carotenoids and could be used in the field of food, cosmetic and medioprophylactic production, enriched with biologically active substances.
Conclusions
Qualitative and quantitative composition of biologically active substances (phenolic substances, volatile compounds, vitamins) in water-ethanol extract of the N.cataria promising specimen was determined in terms of the research.
It was found out that N.cataria extract contains the main volatile compounds, typical for essential oil - monoterpenoids: nepetalactone, citronellol, geranial and geraniol and sesquiterpenoid caryophyllenoxide. Dominant components are nepetalactone (34%), citronellol (33%) and geranial (10%).
Phenolic substances of this extract are presented by hydroxicoric acids and flavonoids. The principal components are chlorogenic acid (50%) and dilicoside apigenin (22,5%).
This water-ethanol extract of N.cataria possesses high biological value and fine minty-lemon fragrance. This extract can be a ground for food, medioprophylactic and perfume-cosmetic production.
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The article was received at editors 10.12.2015
Paliy A.Ye., Paliy I.N., Marko N.V., Rabotyagov V.D. Biologically active substances of Nepeta cataria L. // Bull. of the State Nikit. Botan. Gard. - 2016. - № 118. - P. 33-38.
Qualitative and quantitative composition of biologically active substances in aqueous-ethanol extracts of Nepeta cataria L. was investigated in terms of the research.
Volatile compound composition in N. cataria water-ethanol extract was determined as well.. The main components of extract are nepetalactone, citronellol and geranial.
Content of phenolic compounds was also revealed in aqueous-ethanol extract of N. cataria. Apigenin glycosides, luteolin and hydroxycinnamic acids - chlorogenic acid isomers were identified in the extract.
New specimen of N. cataria is possible to use as a source of biologically active substances for production of medicine, cosmetics and foods.
The study was funded by the Russian Scientific Foundation (№ 14-5000079).
