The present study aims to focus on the bioprospecting of marine macroalgae of Turbinaria species, plenteous biomass of the world ocean. Three types of solvents, i.e., H 2 O, MeOH/H 2 O (80:20, v/v) and hexane/i-PrOH (50:50, v/v), were used for extraction. Both the biological activity and the pattern of present chemicals were characterized. For the cell proliferation assay, the human embryonic kidney 293 cells, cervix/breast/pancreatic adenocarcinoma, and osteosarcoma cells were used. For the antioxidant activity determination, both intracellular assay with human embryonic kidney and cervix adenocarcinoma cells, as well as the biochemical DPPH test, were employed. To complete the information about macroalgae composition, organic compounds were characterized by the liquid chromatography coupled with high resolution tandem mass spectrometry. Attention was concentrated mainly on the lipidomic profile characterization. In spite the fact that any significant antiproliferative effect was not observed for cancer cells, both the Turbinaria species were shown to be good protectors against the oxidative stress of the noncancer cells. Most of the antioxidants were determined in the hexane/i-PrOH extract. As regards the lipids identified, most of them belonged to the triacylglycerols followed by sphingomyelins, diacylglycerols, and polar (lyso) phospholipids. Additionally to fatty acids with 14, 16 and 18 carbons, also those with odd carbon numbers were frequently present.
Protease is an enzyme with high economic value and has been used in industries. Much natural waste can be considered as promising sources protease producing bacteria, such as tofu waste. The objective of the present study was to screen and isolate protease producing bacteria from tofu waste collected from Yogyakarta. Tofu waste samples were serially diluted and 0.1 ml of sample was spread on skim milk agar, at 37oC for 48 hours. Four bacterial colonies showed a clear zone around the colony, indicating protease activity. These isolates (encoded as TWB-1, TWB-2, TWB-3, and TWB-4) were subjected to several biochemical tests and gram staining. Protease activity was determined using the tyrosine standard curve with the casein-Hammarsten substrate. Protease activity of TWB-1, TWB-2, TWB-3, and TWB-4 were 2.85, 5.74, 5.14, and 3.00 respectively. Isolate TWB-2 showed the maximum protease activity with 5.74 U/ml.
Hypertension or high blood pressure is a condition when there is an increase in blood pressure above the normal threshold (> 140/90 mmHg). The bioactive compounds in red ginger are dominated by the terpene group which has the ability to inhibit the action of Angiotensin Converting Enzyme (ACE-inhibitor). The interaction between ACE-inhibitory peptides can be predicted by the in silico method. The in silico method was used to predict the interaction and binding energy between bioactive compounds in red ginger ethanol extract (ligand) and ACE protein (receptor) which acts as an antihypertensive. The results of GC-MS obtained as many as 5 compounds (zingiberene, farnesene, ß -sesquiphellandrene, alpha-curcumene and trans-beta-farnesene. The docking results showed the lowest binding energy values for each compound sequentially for ACE-trans beta farnesene, ACE-alpha curcumene, ACE-zingiberene, ACE-farnesene, ACE-beta sesquiphellandrene are -5.14 kcal/mol, -5.61 kcal/mol , -6.20 kcal/mol, -5.66 kcal/mol, and -6.55 kcal/mol. Based on these results, the lowest bond energy among the 5 compounds was -6.55 kcal/mol at ACE-beta sesquiphellandrene docking, so the red ginger ethanol extract can be proposed and tested further as a clinical candidate for antihypertensive drugs.
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