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Antibacterial Activity of Essential Oil from Abies holophylla against Respiratory Tract Bacteria

  • Lee, Su-Yeon (Department of Forest Sciences, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University) ;
  • kim, Seon-Hong (Department of Forest Sciences, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University) ;
  • Park, Mi-Jin (Division of Wood Chemistry & Microbiology, Department of Forest Resources Utilization, Korea Forest Research Institute) ;
  • Lee, Sung-Suk (Division of Wood Chemistry & Microbiology, Department of Forest Resources Utilization, Korea Forest Research Institute) ;
  • Choi, In-Gyu (Department of Forest Sciences, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University)
  • Received : 2014.03.18
  • Accepted : 2014.06.06
  • Published : 2014.09.25
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Abstract

We extracted essential oils from four species (Pinus densiflora, Larix kaempferi, Pinus koraiensis, and Abies holophylla) in the family Pinaceae to investigate their antibacterial activities against respiratory tract bacteria (Klebsiella pneumoniae, Haemophillus influenzae, Streptococcus pyogenes, Streptococcus pneumonia, and Neisseria meningitides). Among the tested oils, that from A. holophylla was showed strong activity based on disc diffusion and broth medium dilution (minimum inhibitory concentration, MIC) assays. Qualitative analysis of A. holophylla oil was carried out by GC-MS; ${\alpha}$-pinene, camphene, ${\beta}$-pinene, 3-carene, limonene, bornyl acetate, borneol, ${\beta}$-caryophyllene, ${\alpha}$-caryophyllene, caryophyllene oxide, and ${\alpha}$-bisabolol were identified as its major constituents. Fractionation by silica gel chromatography was performed to analyze the active constituents of the crude oil. In particular, one fraction containing caryophyllene oxide as the major constituent showed stronger antibacterial activity than the crude oil of A. holophylla. Growth rates of bacterial strains exposed to fraction D were explored by optical density (OD600) measurements while morphology was examined by optical microscopy observations ( ${\times}1000$). OD600 of K. pneumoniae decreased from 0.2582 to 0.005 in response to treatment with fraction D at a MIC value of $0.31{\mu}{\ell}/m{\ell}$.

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