ISSN: 0973-7510

E-ISSN: 2581-690X

Research Article | Open Access
Manivannan Karthikeyan1#, Pai Akshatha1#, Habeeb Shaik Mohideen2 and Balasundaram Usha1
1Medicinal Plants and PCOS Research Laboratory, Department of Genetic Engineering, School of Bioengineering, College of Engineering and Technology, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, Chengalpattu, Tamil Nadu, India.
2Bioinformatics and Entomoinformatics Lab, Department of Genetic Engineering, School of Bioengineering, College of Engineering and Technology, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, Chengalpattu, Tamil Nadu, India.
#These authors contributed equally to this work
Article Number: 9532 | © The Author(s). 2024
J Pure Appl Microbiol. 2024;18(3):2070-2084. https://doi.org/10.22207/JPAM.18.3.57
Received: 06 May 2024 | Accepted: 02 August 2024 | Published online: 31 August 2024
Issue online: September 2024
Abstract

The seed kernels of Caesalpinia bonducella, a traditional medicinal plant in India, are widely used to treat various disorders, including polycystic ovary syndrome. The seed kernel possesses anti-bacterial properties against many pathogenic bacteria. However, their impact on Lactobacillus spp., a prominent gram-positive gut bacterium, has not been studied till date. The present study employed both in vitro and in silico methods to illustrate the effect of seed extract of C. bonducella against Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG. For this, disc diffusion assay was performed with 100, 500, and 1000 µg/ml of aqueous and methanolic seed extract against L. rhamnosus and E. coli, and the zone of inhibition was measured. While both the extracts inhibited the growth of E. coli, it did not show any zone of inhibition against L. rhamnosus. The latter possess surface layer proteins, SlpX and SlpA, which prevented the influx of the phytocompounds of C. bonducella, as demonstrated by molecular docking using Autodock Vina. Docking results showed that the binding of the phytocompounds to the SlpX and SlpA proteins was not in the active pockets. These findings conclude that C. bonducella seed kernel extracts are safe against the gut bacteria L. rhamnosus.

Keywords

Antibacterial Activity, Molecular Docking, Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, Phytocompounds, Surface Layer Protein

Article Metrics

Article View: 464

Share This Article

© The Author(s) 2024. Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License which permits unrestricted use, sharing, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.