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Syzygium aromaticum is used in traditional and modern H37Rv strain was sensitive to all volatile samples at concen-
medicine for its various and outstanding pharmacological tration range between 10 and 100 μg/mL. The NPF of ethanol
properties. Here, we studied the chemical composition of extract was the best inhibitor with a MIC = 10 μg/mL. The in
hexane extract and non-polar fractions (NPF) obtained from the silico study revealed a strong binding affinity between eugenol
maceration and fractionation of clove buds, in order to evaluate and Mmr EP protein ( 8.1 Kcal/mol), involving two binding
their in vitro antimycobacterial activity, as well as their contribu- modes of hydrogen bond and π-alkyl interactions. The non-
tion against efflux pump (EP) resistance through molecular polarity character of clove volatile constituents, and their
docking experiments. The gas chromatography-mass spectrom- potential additive or synergistic effects could be responsible for
etry (GC–MS) analysis of the volatile profiles revealed the the antimycobacterial activity. In addition, these findings
presence of eugenol, followed by eugenyl acetate, and β- suggest the benefic effect of eugenol in the management of
caryophyllene as common major compounds. According to mycobacterium drug resistance, whether as potential inhibitor
Resazurin microtiter assay (REMA), Mycobacterium tuberculosis of Mmr drug EP, or modulator during combination therapy.
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compounds. Only alcoholic and aqueous clove extracts from Table 1. Volatile compounds of hexane extract and fractions from clove
flower and bud parts were tested on Mycobacterium tuberculosis buds
H37Ra strain. Sivakumar et al.[22] have reported a growth Compound [a] RT [b] RT [c] %
inhibition at 200 μg/mL for the ethanolic extract, but no Hexane NPF- NPF-
inhibition for the aqueous extract. extract Ethyl Ethanol
The over expression of EP has constituted another disturb- acetate extract
extract
ing mechanism of mycobacteria resistance as a result of the
inhibition of antibiotics accumulation by the transmembrane Benzyl acetate 13.96 4.87 0.04 nd nd
hydrophobic proteins.[23–27] For this reason, EP proteins have Methyl Salicylate 15.35 5.14 0.06 0.06 nd
been considered promising targets to diminish the frequency of p-Chavicol 17.85 5.56 0.20 0.28 0.30
intrinsic drugs resistance. Several efflux transporters are Eugenol 22.70 6.42 49.33 47.24 49.49
involved in drug resistance of mycobacteria.[25,28] Mmr (rv3065) Copaene 23.49 6.59 0.31 0.54 0.32
is an EP belonging to small multidrug resistance (SMR) family
β-Caryophyl- 25.36 6.92 18.34 17.69 13.51
conferring resistance to many antimicrobial agents such as lene
ethidium bromide (EtBr) and erythromycin.[29] It has been α-Humulene 26.82 7.15 3.59 2.58 2.21
reported that the deletion of lfrA and Mmr homologue
γ-Muurolene 27.91 7.27 0.49 0.37 0.26
rendered the strains more susceptible to EtBr and fluoroquino-
α-Muurolene 28.83 7.29 1.32 nd nd
lones among others.[29] Verapamil (VER) is an EP inhibitor that
β-Selinene 28.37 7.36 nd 0.11 0.11
has also been shown to potentiate the effect of bedaquiline on
Mycobacterium tuberculosis.[30] Concerning plant-based efflux Eugenyl acetate 29.70 7.53 23.59 21.61 24.89
pump inhibitors, certain alkaloids have been proven effective, Trans (E)-Cadina- 30.18 7.63 0.17 0.04 0.08
1,4-diene
as the case of reserpine (RES) which is an antagonist of the P-gp
Caryophyllene 32.16 7.99 0.87 4.59 3.06
EP, that may completely reverse the drug efflux in multidrug
epoxide
resistant bacteria.[29] In the best of our knowledge, scarcely are
Allo-Aromaden- 34.42 8.29 0.37 2.02 1.87
studies that had been focused on the evaluation of the drene epoxide
potential action of clove chemicals against the multidrug Benzyl Benzoate 38.90 8.98 0.12 0.12 0.16
resistance caused by EP systems.
Ethyl palmitate 47.09 10.06 nd 0.11 0.26
In this context, non-polar clove mixtures seem to respond
Ethyl linoleate 51.47 10.89 nd 0.04 0.23
to the hydrophobic criteria required for invasion of the
[a] [b]
characteristic mycobacterial wall thanks to the lipidic nature of Order of elution on BP-5 capillary column. RT : Retention time on DB-5
capillary column.[33] RT [c]: Retention time on BP-5 capillary column. NPF:
the mycomembrane and to the resistant hydrophobic trans-
Non-polar fraction. nd: Not detected.
membrane proteins. Therefore, we investigated the chemical
composition of hexane extract and NPF obtained by liquid-
liquid fractionation of ethanol and ethyl acetate extracts from
cloves buds, we evaluated as well their in vitro effect against eugenol and eugenyl acetate with 71.56 and 8.99 %, respec-
Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv strain. Molecular docking tively. In addition, all other constituents were different except
study was performed to reveal the potential contribution of the caryophyllene oxide (1.67 %). Differently, Bagavan et al.[32]
major identified volatile compounds for the treatment of identified chavibetol as the major compound of the flower bud
multidrug resistant bacteria, through the determination of their hexane extract, followed by eugenyl acetate, and caryophyllene.
affinity and binding modes with Mmr EP target, as one of the Interestingly, these main constituents are similar to those
drug resistance mechanisms in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. detected in the essential oil from clove buds previously
reported.[10] On the other hand, studies on the volatile profile of
polar clove extracts are scarce. The NPF of ethyl acetate extract
Results and Discussion of clove buds contains 15 volatile compounds which represent
97.40 % of the identified constituents. Whereas, a total of 14
Volatile compounds of clove fractions chemical ingredients recovers 96.75 % of the whole fraction
composition from alcoholic extract. The volatile profiles of the
The hexane, ethyl acetate and ethanol extracts prepared from both fractions are similar to that of hexane extract, except for
clove buds maceration yielded to 10.5, 13.9 and 14.7 %, caryophyllene oxide, of which this time is more abundant after
respectively. The fractionation yields were 57.3 % from ethyl β-caryophyllene and eugenyl acetate (Table 1). These constitu-
acetate extract and 46 % from ethanol extract. The GC/MS ents, in addition to eugenol as the common major compound
investigation of clove hexane extract revealed 14 identified represent 91.13 % for NPF of ethyl acetate extract, and 90.95 %
compounds which recover a total of 98.81 % (Table 1). Eugenol, for NPF ethanol extract (Figure 1). The α-humulene and
eugenyl acetate, β-caryophyllene and α-humulene are the main aromadendrene epoxide were also detected in significant
constituents, and represent a total of 94.85 % (Figure 1). On one amounts of around 2 %.
hand, few studies have reported the volatile profile of clove
hexane extract. Nassar et al.[31] showed the predominance of
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Molecular docking on Mmr drug efflux pump Table 3. Binding energies and active residues in the Mmr docked
complexes with major compounds.
Compound Mmr
The molecular docking study against EP drug resistance in
mycobacteria was based on the generation of the best binding BE Residues
Eugenol 8.1 Ala A69, A72; Ser A73; Trp A131; Phe A155; Tyr
A101, A115; Leu A111;
Table 2. Inhibitory activity of clove extract and fractions on Mycobacterium Eugenyl 5.9 Ala A28, A117, B117; Arg A29, A121 B29; Glu
tuberculosis H37Rv. acetate A113; His B120; Met A116
Sample MIC (μg/ml) β-caryophyl- 5.4 Ala B74; Leu B130
lene
Hexane extract 50
VER 8.1 Gln A125, B105; His A120; Arg B109; Glu B113;
NPF-Ethanol extract 10
Thr B110; Pro A122; Leu B163; Ala A119
NPF-Ethyl acetate extract 100
RES 9.7 Arg A25; Arg A29; Arg A109; Pro B122; Leu
INH 0.01 A163; Ala A18, A44
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Figure 2. Binding sites of the best docking conformations of eugenol (purple), RES (cyan) and VER (orange) within Mmr protein, amino acid residues and
hydrogen bonds (red dashed line) involved in eugenol-Mmr complex.
growth inhibitory effect, in particular for NPF of ethanol extract. Experimental Section
This activity seems to be influenced by the non-polarity
character of the identified constituents which is in harmony Chemicals and instruments
with the lipidic nature of the mycomembrane. Therefore, further Middlebrook broth base (M7H9), albumin, dextrose and catalase
investigations should be carried out on their potential use as (ADC) enrichment, polymyxin B, amphotericin B, nalidixic acid,
alternative antimycobacterials. Additionally, the molecular dock- trimethoprim and azlocillin (PANTA), and resazurin sodium salt
ing study revealed a strong binding affinity between eugenol were purchased from Sigma–Aldrich and HiMedia Laboratories. All
other chemicals and solvents were of analytical grade. The analysis
and Mmr target protein as one of overexpressed efflux pumps
of volatile compounds was performed by GC–MS unit, consisted on
in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The eugenol-Mmr docked com- a Shimadzu GC-2010 gas chromatograph with BP-5 capillary
plex included two binding modes of hydrogen bond and π-alkyl column (30 m×0.25 mm i.d., film thickness 0.25 μm; SGE, Ltd.), and
interactions. This interesting finding suggests that eugenol coupled to Shimadzu QP2010 Plus mass spectrometer (software
could be beneficial for the prevention of drug resistance version 2.50 SU1).
emergence as a potential Mmr efflux pump inhibitor or as a
modulator during combination therapy. Preparation of clove fractions
The clove buds were purchased from local spice market in
Casablanca, Morocco, and were stored in clear poly bags. Extracts
were prepared by three independent macerations using solvents
with varying polarity of ethanol, ethyl acetate, and hexane. 100 g of
fine powder of dried clove buds were placed in 1 L of each
corresponding solvent for three days. The mixture was stored in
dark at room temperature, then the extract was filtered, concen-
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trated in rotary evaporator. The process was repeated until the dimensions were adjusted to encompass the whole protein. The
residue was exhausted. Then the ethanol and ethyl acetate extracts molecular docking program AutoDock Vina (version 1.1.2)[44] was
were submitted to water-hexane fractionations using ampoule used to perform the docking experiments. The Lamarckian Genetic
decantation. The hexane-soluble fraction obtained from each crude Algorithm was used to explore the best conformation space for the
extract was concentrated in vacuo to give the corresponding NPF ligand with the least binding energy.
that was stored at 4 °C.
Mycobacterium H37Rv inhibitory test Thanks to Achraf Abdou from Faculty of Sciences Ain Chock,
Hassan II University of Casablanca, for technical help.
The sensitivity of mycobacterium H37Rv strain to the prepared
hexane extract and NPFs from clove buds was estimated by REMA
according to Palomino et al.[42] with slight modification. The REMA
plate method was performed in Middlebrook 7H9 medium Conflict of Interests
containing Middlebrook broth base, 0,05 % Tween 80, 0,2 % glycerol
and 2,4 % PANTA, and supplemented with 10 % albumin, dextrose The authors declare no conflict of interest.
and catalase (ADC) enrichment. The tested samples and INH
standard were prepared by serial two-fold dilutions with culture
medium, and a volume of 100 μl was used. The inoculum was
prepared from fresh Middlebrook 7H9 medium by dilution 1 : 100, Data Availability Statement
and 100 μl was added to 96-well plate. The plates were covered
and incubated at 37 °C in normal atmosphere. After 4 days of The data that support the findings of this study are available in
incubation, 30 μl of resazurin solution (0.02 %) was added to growth
the supplementary material of this article.
control without antibiotic, and assessed for color development of
the indicator. The change in color from blue to pink indicates the
reduction of resazurin due to the growth of mycobacteria. Then Keywords: antimycobacterial activity · drug efflux pump ·
resazurin indicator was added to each well and the plate was re- natural products · syzygium aromaticum · terpenoids
incubated overnight at 37 °C. The MIC was defined as the lowest
concentration of sample that prevented the appearance of pink
color.
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