Scientia Silvae Sinicae  2010, Vol. 46 Issue (7): 120-128   PDF    
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He Yuejun, Yue Yongde, Tang Feng, Guo Xuefeng, Wang Jin
何跃君, 岳永德, 汤锋, 郭雪峰, 王进
Chemical Compositions and Antioxidant Capacity of Essential Oils from Different Species of the Bamboo Leaves
竹叶挥发油化学成分及其抗氧化特性
Scientia Silvae Sinicae, 2010, 46(7): 120-128.
林业科学, 2010, 46(7): 120-128.

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Received date: 2008-10-20
Revised date: 2009-01-12

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Yuejun He
Yongde Yue
Feng Tang
Xuefeng Guo
Jin Wang

Chemical Compositions and Antioxidant Capacity of Essential Oils from Different Species of the Bamboo Leaves
He Yuejun, Yue Yongde , Tang Feng, Guo Xuefeng, Wang Jin    
International Center for Bamboo and Rattan Beijing 100102
Abstract: The antioxidant capacity of essential oils obtained by steam distillation from four bamboo species of the Bambusa vulgaris, Bambusa multiplex, Phyllostachys pubescens, and Dendrocalamus latiflorus, were evaluated using the DPPH assays. The yield of oils from the leaves of the four species was variable with the greater amount obtained from Bambusa vulgaris (0.827%), and the least from Phyllostachys pubescens (0.391%). The chemical compositions in bamboo leaves were analyzed by GC-MS. The results showed that 168 chromatographic humps were gained. 132 kinds of composition were identified. The major volatile components detected and identified by GC-MS were also variable. A major volatile was 3-methyl-2-butanol, detected in four bamboo species(maximum in Dendrocalamus latiflorus at 46.25%).Other major components detected were 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol, 2-hexenal, 3, 7, 11-trimethyl-1, 6, 10-dodecatrien-3-ol, phytol, benzeneacetaldehyde, nonanal, 6, 10, 14-trimethyl-2-pentadecanone, 5, 6, 7, 7a-tetrahydro-4, 4, 7a-trimethyl-2(4H) benzofuranone and isophytol. In the DPPH assays, strong antioxidant capacity was evident in all the oils but the greater antioxidant capacity was shown by that obtained from Bambusa vulgaris (IC50=2.705 mg·mL-1) compared to Bambusa multiplex (IC50=3.442 mg·mL-1). Antioxidant capacity was positively correlated (r=0.91) with the concentration of essential oils. The data indicated that essential oils obtained from various bamboo leaves may play an important role in functional foods and in the preservation of pharmacologic products.
Key words: bamboo leaves     essential oil     chemical compositions     antioxidant activity    
竹叶挥发油化学成分及其抗氧化特性
何跃君, 岳永德 , 汤锋, 郭雪峰, 王进    
国际竹藤网络中心 北京 100102
摘要:采用水蒸气蒸馏法从黄金间碧竹、孝顺竹、毛竹和麻竹4种竹叶中提取挥发油,用气相色谱-质谱联用技术对4种竹叶挥发油化学成分进行分析和鉴定,共获得168个色谱峰,鉴定其中132种化学成分,并运用气相色谱面积归一化法确定各组分的相对含量; 以TBHQ为对照品,采用DPPH法研究4种竹叶挥发油对自由基的清除作用。结果表明:采用水蒸气蒸馏法黄金间碧竹竹叶挥发油的得率最高(0.827%),而毛竹竹叶挥发油的得率仅为0.391%。4种竹叶挥发油的化学成分在含量和组成上不同,竹叶挥发油主要化学成分是3-甲基-2-丁醇,麻竹竹叶挥发油含量最高达到46.25%;其他主要化学成分有4-乙烯基-2-甲氧基-苯酚、己-2-烯醛、橙花叔醇、植物醇、苯乙醛、天竺葵醛、植酮、二氢猕猴桃内酯和异植物醇。4种竹叶挥发油均有较强的抗氧化活性,竹叶挥发油的抗氧化活性与挥发油的浓度呈正相关(r=0.91),其中黄金间碧竹竹叶挥发油的抗氧化活性最强(IC50=2.705 mg·mL-1),孝顺竹竹叶挥发油抗氧化活性较低(IC50=3.442 mg·mL-1)。综合研究结果表明,竹叶挥发油具有较高的应用价值,可作为食品和药品的功能性组分进一步开发和利用。
关键词竹叶    挥发油    化学成分    抗氧化活性    

Reactive oxygen species(ROS) or free radicals are generated as byproducts or intermediates of aerobic metabolism and through reactions with drugs and environmental toxins. The elevated cellular levels of free radicals cause damage to nucleic acid, proteins, and membrane lipids and have associated with many aging related problems including carcinogenesis and heart diseases(Halliwell et al., 1992; Halliwell, 1996; Wang et al., 2000). The balance between the production and scavenging of ROS can therefore determine the susceptibility of the body to oxidative damage. Although almost all organisms possess antioxidant defense and repair systems, which quench or minimize the production of oxygen-derived species, thus protecting organisms against oxidative damage, these protective systems are insufficient to entirely prevent the damage(Simic, 1988)caused by endogenous or exogenous(Sun, 1990).

Moreover, ROS are predominant cause of qualitative decay of foods, which lead to rancidity, toxicity and destruction of biomolecules important in physiologic metabolism. However, with safety concerns identified for these synthetic antioxidant(Kitts, 1996; Wichi et al., 1998), considerable interest has arisen in finding alternative sources of antioxidants for use in food systems and increased in researches regarding natural antioxidants. The most widely used synthetic antioxidants used historically in the preservation of foodstuffs such as BHA(butylated hydroxyanisol), BHT(butylatedhydroxytoluene) and TBHQ(tert-butyl hydroquinone) are suspected to cause or promote negative health effects(Namiki, 1991). Indeed, they have been replaced in Japan since 1996 by the natural secondary plant metabolite ellagic acid. For this reason, there is a growing interest in replacing synthetic compounds with natural secondary plant metabolites as potential antioxidants. The use of natural antioxidants has the advantage that the consumer, considered to be safe because of no chemical contamination, readily accepts them and no safety tests are required by the legislation if the food component is Generally Recognized As Safe(GRAS)(Pokorny, 1991). A range of plants has been studied in recent years as potential sources of antioxidants. Among these many essential oils of aromatic plants and spices have been shown to be effectives in retarding the process of lipid peroxidation in oils and fatty food and have gained the interest of many research groups. Therefore, a systematic examination of antioxidant properties of various plant extracts is extremely important to validate the use of, essential oils as preservatives in both the food and pharmaceutical industries. Over the past several decades, a number of studies on the antioxidant activities of essential oils from various aromatic plants have already been shown.

Bamboo is one of the most important forest resources. More than 1 250 species belonging to 75 genera, are being reported worldwide, which are mainly distributed in the tropical and sub-tropical zone, and a few in the temperate and frigid zone. China is one of the bamboo distribution centers of the world with the most abundant bamboo resources, a high economic value and the largest bamboo area. China boasts a long history of utilizing bamboo both as edible food and medicine, but the research on chemical composition of bamboo extracts did not start until the 1950s in China. Antioxidant of bamboo leaves(AOB), a pale brown powder extracted from bamboo leaves, was capable of blocking chain reactions of lipid auto oxidation, chelating metal ions of transient state, scavenging nitrite compounds and blocking the synthetic reaction of nitrosamine reported by previous study(Lou et al., 2004). Moreover, AOB was testified to be a strong antioxidant activity and inhibitory effect on transition metal ion and free radical induced deterioration of macromolecules in vitro (Hu et al., 2000). The particular interest has focused on the potential applications of essential oil that have low toxicity and a strong antioxidant activity as alternative chemical control measures. There are some reports about studies on analysis of essential oil composition from Phyllostachys pubescens, Pleioblastus amarus, Sinocalamus affinis, Indocalamus latifolius and Indocalamus tessellatus leaves(Mao et al., 2001; Wang et al., 2001; 2002; Yang et al., 2002; Li et al., 2007). However, the studies on antioxidant capacity of essential oils from the bamboo leaves were not reported. The objectives of this study were to compare the antioxidant activity of the essential oils from the bamboo leaves, detecting the main components of the extracts by gas chromatography mass spectrometry(GC-MS), in an attempt to contribute to the use of these as alternative products for food preservation.

1 Materials and methods 1.1 Chemical

Ethyl ether, Ethanol, Hexane were obtained from Beijing Chemical Factory; Sodium sulfate, anhydrous from Beijing Yili Chemical Company; Tert-butyl hydroquinone(TBHQ) and 2, 2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazil(DPPH) from Sigma Chemie. All chemicals used were of analytical grade. All solutions were made up in double-distilled water.

1.2 Plant material

Leaves from adult plant of four species of the bamboo were collected during the autumn(September) from the Jiangxi Academy of Forestry in China, and sample authenticated by professor Peng Jiusheng. The dried samples were ground into fine powder. The ground samples were kept in an air-tight container and stored in a freezer(-20 ℃)until further analysis.

1.3 Steam distillation

Essential oils were extracted by using extracted device of essential oil. The leaves of the bamboo species were mixture with distilled water(1: 8). The essential oils were extracted (6 h) by steam distillation using hexane as the collecting solvent. The solvent was separated throughout an auto-oil/water separator. The water fraction was extracted using ethyl ether as the collecting solvent for three times. The hexane extract and ethyl ether extract were mixed, subsequently dried over anhydrous sodium sulfate, and the vapor condensed. Each essential oil extraction was running in duplicate.

1.4 Gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry(GC-MS)

Analyses were performed using a Agilent Technologies 5973 mass selective detector coupled to a Agilent Technologies 6890N gas chromatograph. Sample volumes of 1 μL were injected in the splitless mode into gas chromatograph. Separation of analytes was achieved using a DB-1 MS (30 m×0.25 mm×0.25 μm). Helium was used as carrier gas with velocity of 1 mL·min-1. The oven temperature program was as follows. Initial temperature 40 ℃ for 1 min, 40-100 ℃ at 5 ℃·min-1 the holding for 5 min, followed by 100-210 ℃ at 5 ℃·min-1 holding for 10 min. The GC injector temperature was 200 ℃. The mass spectrometer parameters for EI mode were ion source temperature, 200 ℃; electron energy, 70 eV; filament current, 34.6 μA; electron multiplier voltage, 1 200 V.

Constituents were identified by matching experimental fragmentation patterns in mass spectra with those of NIST2002, as well as comparing their spectra with those reported in the literature. The relative percentage of the oil constituents was calculated from GC peak areas.

1.5 DPPH assay

The free radical scavenging capacity of the oils was determined using the DPPH discoloration method(Silva et al., 2006). The oils was diluted in 95% ethanol giving a range of 1-6 mg·mL-1. The dilutions 0.5 mL were placed in a test tube in duplicate. The reaction was initiated by addition of 2 mL DPPH solution (51.54 mg·L-1 in 95% ethanol). The absorbance was read at 517 nm over 50 min using a UV-Vis spectrophotometer until the reading reached a plateau.

IC50 value was determined from the plotted graph of scavenging activity versus the concentration of essential oils, which was defined as the total antioxidant necessary to decrease the initial DPPH radical concentration by 50%. Triplicate measurements were carried out and their activity was calculated by the percentage of DPPH scavenged.

1.6 Statistics

The volume of essential of oil producing 50%(IC50) inhibition of oxidation or reduction in the DPPH assays were determined using the Table curve program. The standard errors at each concentration used lower than 2% and are therefore not shown in either the tables or figures. A significant difference was considered at the level of P < 0.05.

2 Results and discussion 2.1 Chemical compositions of the oils

The amount of essential oils obtained from the bamboo species was variable (Tab. 1). The greater yield was from Bambusa vulgaris (0.827%) and the least from Phyllostachys pubescens (0.391%). The chemical compositions in bamboo leaves were analyzed by GC-MS. The results showed that 168 chromatographic humps were gained, and 132 kinds of composition were identified. The major volatile components detected and identified by GC-MS was also variable(Tab. 2). A major volatile was 3-methyl-2-butanol, detected in four bamboo species (maximum in Dendrocalamus latiflorus at 44.838%). Other major components detected were 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol, 2-hexenal, 3, 7, 11-trimethyl-1, 6, 10-dodecatrien-3-ol, benzeneacetaldehyde, nonanal, phytol, 6, 10, 14-trimethyl-2-pentadecanone, 5, 6, 7, 7a-tetrahydro-4, 4, 7a-trimethyl-2(4H)benzofuranone and isophytol.

Tab.1 Yield of essential oils from bamboo species after steam hydrodistillation
Tab.2 Chemical composition of essential oil of B. vulgaris (Ⅰ), B. multiplex (Ⅱ), P. pubescens (Ⅲ), and D. latiflorus (Ⅳ)as determined by gas chromatography mass spectrometry
2.2 Antioxidant capacity of the oils

The proton radical scavenging action is known to be one of the various mechanisms for measuring antioxidant activity. DPPH is one of the compounds that possess a proton free radical and shows a maximum absorption at 517 nm for essential oil from bamboo leaf. There was a correlation between radical scavenging rate and the concentration of essential oil from bamboo leaves. The concentration-dependent scavenging of reactive oxygen species by the oil was depicted in Fig. 1.

Fig.1 Scavenging effect of essential oil of bamboo leaves on DPPH radicals Values are expressed as mean±standard deviation(n=3).

The antioxidant capacity of the oils correlated positively (r=0.91, P < 0.05) with the concentration of essential oils. Radical scavenging rate was enhanced with increasing concentration of essential oils. B. vulgaris showed the highest scavenging effect, whereas B. multiplex exhibited the lowest activity among the bamboo species. However there was no significant difference between these bamboo species. The scavenging activity of essential oils on DPPH radicals rapidly increased from 1 to 6 mg·mL-1. Results showed that scavenging activity was increased as the concentration of essential oils increased until a mild ascend state was reached after 4 mg·mL-1. At a concentration of 3 mg·mL-1, the essential oils showed higher scavenging activity than a concentration of 1 mg·mL-1.

IC50 value was determined from the plotted graph of scavenging activity against the concentration of essential oils, which is defined as the amount of antioxidant necessary to decrease the initial DPPH radical concentration by 50%(Tab. 3). The lowest IC50 indicates the strongest ability of the essential oils to act as DPPH scavengers. The IC50 value of B. vulgaris was 2.705, which was slightly lower than B. multiplex. However, no significant difference existed between these bamboo species. B. vulgaris exhibited a significant higher scavenging effect compared to B. multiplex. The scavenging activity of essential oils was in the order of B. vulgaris > P. pubescens > D. latiflorus > B. multiplex. Given that the production of secondary plant metabolites is mainly related to the preservation of the organism, it was of interest to determine whether the production of antioxidant volatile compounds showed any temporal variation in bamboo species.

Tab.3 Scavenging activity(IC50) of essential oil of bamboo leaves on DPPH radicals
3 Conclusion

A previous study had reported that antioxidant activity and the yield of phenolic content was influenced by different extracting solvents(Sun et al., 2005). For example, a water extract of Terminalia chebuta showed good antioxidant activity, compared to methanolic extracts of Lycopersicon esculentum (Cai et al., 2004). Moreover, from a toxicological point of view, ethanol and water are safer than acetone, methanol and other organic solvents(Oktay et al., 2003).The essential oils obtained by steam distillation from plant leaves may be safe for using. In the present study, the essential oils were obtained by steam distillation from four bamboo species of the B. vulgaris, B. multiplex, P. pubescens, and D. latiflorus. The yield of essential oils from bamboo species was variable, with B. vulgaris providing over two times more than P. pubescens. The steam distillation is an effective method for obtaining essential oils from bamboo leaves.

By adopting distillation of P. pubescens leaves and GC-MS analysis, the volatile composition of P. pubescens was extracted and identified in which 67 chromatographic humps were gained. 53 kinds of composition were identified. 3-hexen-1-ol and 2-hexenal were major components(Mao et al., 2001). However, the results of the present study showed that 168 chromatographic humps were gained, and 132 kinds of composition were identified. The major volatile components were 3-methyl-2-butanol, 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol, 2-hexenal, nonanal, phytol, 6, 10, 14-trimethyl-2-pentadecanone, and isophytol. The difficulty of GC-MS analysis arises due to the complexity of the volatile compositions, this is particularly due to presence of natural essential oils and other ingredients consisting of complex chemical mixtures.The variety of extract solvents and different analysis method by GC-MS may be exactly the reasons for different results between two studies on essential oil from bamboo leaves.

DPPH is a free radical donor, which has been widely used to evaluate the free radical scavenging effect of natural antioxidants(Matsukawa et al., 1997; Jao et al., 2002). The IC50 values measured in the DPPH assay for essential oil of each bamboo species was extremely low, especially that of B. vulgaris, even in comparison with TBHQ, which was only over three times than TBHQ. Six major components detected were 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol, 3, 7, 11-trimethyl-1, 6, 10-dodecatrien-3-ol, phytol, 6, 10, 14-trimethyl-2-pentadecanone, 5, 6, 7, 7a-tetrahydro-4, 4, 7a-trimethyl-2(4H) benzofuranone and isophytol in four bamboo leaves, which may contribute to enhance antioxidant capacity of essential oils from bamboo leaves. The antioxidant capacity of the oils, however, is not clearly related to the proportion and profile of secondary plant compounds(Maria et al., 2006).

Other factors that also influence the antioxidants activity are antioxidants concentration, extraction medium, temperature, pH of medium(Gazzani et al., 1998)chemical structures and position in the molecule(Prior et al., 2005). A high antioxidant activity could also be due to other compounds besides phenolics which are soluble in water. In the present study, a part of volatile components in essential oils were extract from water fraction using ethyl ether as extract solvent, which may be also positively correlated with antioxidant activity of essential oils from bamboo leaves.

Food such as fruits, vegetables and grains are reported to contain a wide variety of antioxidant components, including phenolic compounds. These compounds are found to be well correlated with antioxidant potential(Katalinic et al., 2004). Furthermore, an increase in the horticulure of bamboo leaves, such as B. vulgaris, would appear to be advantageous in terms of future application for incorporation into functional foods and pharmaceutical products. Also, benefits may accrue by the utilization of technologic processes or genetic manipulation to increase the yield of oil from this species. Furthermore, the oils are currently undergoing a battery of further in-vitro tests(Gerhauser et al., 2003)to clarify their preservation of pharmaceutical products and validity as food additives.

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