Isoeleuterol e isoeleuterina: potenciais marcadores químicos da tintura de Eleutherine plicata Herb (Iridaceae) e atividades microbiológica e antioxidante

Abstract

Eleutherine plicata Herb. is an Iridaceae, popularly known as marupazinho, widely used by people to treat diarrhea. With the bulb of the plant is about a cup of tea, which is used to treat infestations caused by amoeba. The plant material used in this study was collected in Belém do Pará and their identification by comparison of botany was deposited in exsiccates Paraense Emilio Goeldi Museum under nº 10543. The ethanol extract was prepared by percolation from the bulb previously dried and crushed. After drying the ethanol extract was suspended in a solution hydroalcoholic (1:1) and subjected to partition with solvents of increasing polarity. With the ethanol extract and the fractions were performed eighteen tests to detect classes of secondary metabolites. The ethanol extract and the fractions hexanic and chloroform, showed a positive result for naphthoquinones, anthraquinones and steroids and triperpenoids. The analysis by thin-layer chromatography fractions of ethanol extract and hexane and chloroform, showed areas susceptible to methanolic solution of KOH 10%, indicating the presence of quinones in these samples. The evaluation of the antimicrobial activity of ethanol extract and fractions hexanic and chloroform with strains of C. albicans, S. aureus, E. coli and P. aeruginosa, showed that the chloroform fraction is the most active, presenting the largest halos of inhibition of microbial growth, possibly containing a higher concentration of active constituents. The chemical constituents isoeleutherol and isoeleutherine were isolated from chloroform fraction, and were characterized chemically using RMN 1H e 13C, compared with the literature. The ethanol extract, isoeleutherol and isoeleutherine were submitted to evaluation of their antioxidant activies, and showed weak activity when compared with BHT.