Recovery effect of lignans and fermented extracts from Forsythia koreana flowers on pancreatic islets damaged by alloxan in zebrafish (Danio rerio)

Yeong Geun Lee, Isabel Rodriguez, Youn Hee Nam, Jung Eun Gwag, Sang Ho Woo, Hyoung Geun Kim, Jung Hwan Ko, Bin Na Hong, Tong Ho Kang, Nam In Baek

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

14 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Repeated column separation yielded four enterolactone type lignans from Forsythia koreana flowers (FKF), whose chemical structures were identified using several spectral technics. FKF MeOH extract (FKFM) and four lignans significantly recovered aloxan induced pancreatic islet in zebrafish. Especially, aglycones, 1 and 3, exhibited relatively higher activity than the lignan glycosides, 2 and 4. Therefore, FKFM was fermented using a Microbacterium esteraromaticum, BGP1, to yield the fermented FKFM (FKFM-BGP1). FKFM and FKFM-BGP1 were extracted using n-butanol to give n-BuOH fraction of each, FKFM-nB and FKFM-BGP1-nB, respectively. FKFM-BGP1-nB showed higher activity than FKFM-nB, as well the content of the aglycones, 1 and 3, in FKFM-BGP1-nB, 2.42 ± 0.01% and 1.15 ± 0.01%, was revealed to be much higher than that in FKFM-nB, 0.01 ± 0.01% and 0.01 ± 0.01%, respectively. In conclusion, the lignan aglycones 1 and 3 as well FKFM-BGP1-nB from F. koreana flowers were proved to be potential anti-diabetic agents. Furthermore, we suggest that antidiabetic efficacy of FKFM-BGP1-nB might be related to lignan aglycones 1 and 3.

Original languageEnglish
Article number7
JournalApplied Biological Chemistry
Volume62
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2019

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, The Author(s).

Keywords

  • Arctigenin
  • Diabetes
  • Fermentation
  • Forsythia koreana
  • Matairesinol
  • Zebrafish

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Recovery effect of lignans and fermented extracts from Forsythia koreana flowers on pancreatic islets damaged by alloxan in zebrafish (Danio rerio)'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this