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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bada, Lucía
• Pereira, Renato B
• Pereira, David M
• Lores, Marta
• Celeiro, María
• Quezada, Elías
• Uriarte, Eugenio
• Gil-Longo, José
• Viña, Dolores

Titel

Phytochemical Analysis and Antiproliferative Activity of Ulex gallii Planch. (Fabaceae), a Medicinal Plant from Galicia (Spain)

Ist Teil von

• Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2023-01, Vol.28 (1), p.351

Ort / Verlag

Switzerland: MDPI AG

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

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MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The genus comprises thirteen accepted species of perennial shrubs in the family Fabaceae. In Galicia (Spain) many of these are considered spontaneous colonizing species, which are easy to establish and maintain. Among them, Planch. is used in traditional medicine for the same anti-infective, hypotensive and diuretic purposes as L., which is the most studied species. Likewise, some studies have described the antitumoral properties of several species. However, there are few scientific studies that justify the use of Planch. and nothing has been reported about its composition to date. In our study, the entire plant was extracted with methanol and the crude extract was subjected to liquid phase extraction with distinct solvents, yielding three fractions: hexane (H), dichloromethane (D) and methanol (M), which were subsequently fractionated. The dichloromethane (D5, D7 and D8) and methanol (M4) sub-fractions showed antiproliferative activity on A549 (lung cancer) and AGS (stomach cancer) cell lines, and caspase 3/7 activity assessment and DNA quantification were also performed. Targeted analysis via UHPLC-QToF, in combination with untargeted analysis via MS-Dial, MS-Finder and Global Natural Products Social Molecular Networking (GNPS), allowed us to tentatively identify different metabolites in these sub-fractions, mostly flavonoids, that might be involved in their antiproliferative activity.