{"title":"Bioactive compound produced from Streptomyces aureofaciens KF532950 and its antimicrobial activity","authors":"Sundaram Vennila, Marimuthu Krishnaveni","doi":"10.1016/j.ijcas.2013.08.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijcas.2013.08.007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Aim</h3><p>Actinomycetes are gram-positive bacteria, common in nature, play a significant role in biotechnology, as it produces vitamins, enzymes, anti-tumour agents, immune-modifying agents, mainly antibiotic compounds. Various bioactive substances are produced by a wide variety of microorganisms including several species of bacteria and fungi. Hence, it was decided to isolate soil bacteria that is able to produce biologically active substances.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>The bioactive compound producing strain was isolated from soil and the same was sequenced, submitted to gene bank for accession number. Related species was known by tree construction. The bacterial isolates from wound were tested for its susceptibility against bioactive compound isolated from <em>Streptomyces aureofaciens</em> by disc diffusion assay. The produced compound was subjected to SDS-PAGE analysis for molecular weight determination.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>The isolated strain was obtained accession number KF532950, it contains high GC content of 63.6%. The bioactive compound produced from <em>Streptomyces aureofaciens</em> showed positive result against <em>Staphylococcus</em> spp. and <em>Pseudomonas</em> spp. and its molecular weight ranged from 14.3 to 97.4 Kd.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><p>From the results obtained, it is concluded that, our strain produces bioactive compound which may be further characterized for its properties.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100693,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Chemical and Analytical Science","volume":"4 3","pages":"Pages 153-155"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.ijcas.2013.08.007","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77623397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A facile synthesis of Methyl-2-(N-ethyl-N-phenylamino)naphthyridine-3-carboxylates","authors":"Kishore Kumar Anantoju , Giri Tharikoppula , Laxminarayana Eppakayala , Thirumala Chary Maringanti","doi":"10.1016/j.ijcas.2013.07.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijcas.2013.07.008","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objective</h3><p>To develop an efficient method for the synthesis of Methyl-2-(N-ethyl-N-phenylamino)naphthyridine-3-carboxylates which is suitable for different naphthyridines.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>All reagents used were commercial grade, <sup>1</sup>H NMR spectra were obtained on a varian 400 MHz instrument with TMS as internal standard and chemical shifts are expressed <em>δ</em> ppm solvent used in DMSO-d<sub>6</sub> & CDCl<sub>3</sub> and LC–MS spectrum on a Waters LC–MS spectrometer operating at 70 ev. TLC is performed with E-Merch precoated silica gel plates (60F-254) with iodine as a developing agent. Acme, India silica gel, 60–120 mesh for column chromatography is used. All compounds are purified by column chromatography by using Silica gel (60–120 mesh) eluted with (50:1) dichloromethane in methanol.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>We have developed an efficient protocol for the synthesis of Methyl-2-(N-ethyl-N-phenylamino)naphthyridine-3-carboxylates.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100693,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Chemical and Analytical Science","volume":"4 3","pages":"Pages 146-148"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.ijcas.2013.07.008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85194673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An isocratic solvent-free mobile phase HPLC-PDA analysis of clenbuterol and ractopamine","authors":"Naoto Furusawa","doi":"10.1016/j.ijcas.2013.07.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijcas.2013.07.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper describes a reserved-phase HPLC method for detecting clenbuterol (CB) and ractopamine (RP) using an isocratic solvent-free mobile phase. The separations were performed a Kaseisorb<sup>®</sup> LC C1-300-5 (100 × 4.6 mm, 5 μm) with 0.05 mol/L octane sulfonic acid mobile phase and a photodiode array detector. The total run time was <5 min. The system suitability was well within the international acceptance criteria. The detection limits were 0.68 ng/mL for CB and 1.24 ng/mL for RP, respectively. A harmless method for simultaneous detecting CB and RP was developed and may be further applied to the quantification in foods.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100693,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Chemical and Analytical Science","volume":"4 3","pages":"Pages 169-173"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.ijcas.2013.07.002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81004487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New compound 6,7-dimethoxy-2-methylisoquinolinium from Indian medicinal plant Annona squamosa L.","authors":"Jayendra, Yatendra Kumar","doi":"10.1016/j.ijcas.2013.08.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijcas.2013.08.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objectives</h3><p><em>Annona squamosa</em> L. is a widely used Indian medicinal plant for the cure of deadly disease, diabetes. In recent decades, a great no. of chemical and pharmacological studies have been done on <em>A. squamosa</em> L. and still more research is required in order to search its bioactive components.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>Bioassay dependent fractionation & isolation technique is used & repeated column chromatography was utilized to get pure compounds.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>Structure elucidation for <strong>compound A</strong> & <strong>compound B</strong> has been done using Mass, NMR, IR, UV, 1D & 2D NMR techniques.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><p>In this paper we report one new compound from Indian medicinal plant <em>A. squamosa</em> L. which is characterized as 6,7-dimethoxy-2-methylisoquinolinium & is obtained from the twigs of the plant in its chloroform fraction. One known compound Rutin is also obtained from <em>n</em>-butanol fraction and is reported for the first time from this plant which is characterized as 2-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)-5,7-dihydroxy-3-[(2S,3R,4S,5S,6R)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-{{(2S,3R,4R,5R,6S)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-methyltetrahydro-2H-pyran-2-yloxy}methyl}tetrahydro-2H-pyran-2-yloxy]-4H-chromen-4-one.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100693,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Chemical and Analytical Science","volume":"4 3","pages":"Pages 161-168"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.ijcas.2013.08.005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77639774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluation of photodegradation efficiency on semiconductor immobilized clay photocatalyst by using probit model approximation","authors":"Jaka Nugraha , Is Fatimah","doi":"10.1016/j.ijcas.2013.07.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcas.2013.07.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Photodegradation process and mechanism is a relative new and eco-friendly process to recycle and reuse of water. Some investigation concerned with effort to increase photocatalyst activity by immobilizing semiconductor oxide such as ZnO in clay as solid support. It was related to that photodegradation was directed by adsorption mechanism. However sometimes the activity of a photocatalyst is not linearly correlated with adsorption mechanism. In this research evaluation on photoactivity of ZnO-hectorite (ZnO/CTMA/Hectorite) and TiO<sub>2</sub>-montmorillonite based material using statistical approximation compared to the linear model is studied. The model is evaluated for photodegradation of phenol solution. Some beneficial results of the probit model are (i) the guarantee of activity prediction value in the range of 0–100% (ii) interaction of adsorption and photodegradation mechanism is well described.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100693,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Chemical and Analytical Science","volume":"4 2","pages":"Pages 125-130"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.ijcas.2013.07.005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91726656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Assay of some non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs with ammonium hexanitratocerate (IV) reagent","authors":"Vinod Kumar, B. Singh, I. C. Shukla","doi":"10.1016/J.IJCAS.2013.03.007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/J.IJCAS.2013.03.007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100693,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Chemical and Analytical Science","volume":"6 1","pages":"115-119"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76983155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eliangiringa Kaale , Bugusu C. Nyamweru , Vicky Manyanga , Mhina Chambuso , Thomas Layloff
{"title":"The development and validation of a Thin Layer Chromatography densitometry method for the analysis of diclofenac sodium tablets","authors":"Eliangiringa Kaale , Bugusu C. Nyamweru , Vicky Manyanga , Mhina Chambuso , Thomas Layloff","doi":"10.1016/j.ijcas.2013.05.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijcas.2013.05.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Aims</h3><p>Diclofenac sodium is a Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug (NSAID) with anti-inflammatory, antipyretic, and analgesic action as a result of the blockade of prostaglandin synthesis by inhibition of the cyclooxygenase enzyme. Analysis of the active pharmaceutical ingredient as well as finished pharmaceutical product is of vital importance to help ensure that good quality products are manufactured and supplied to the patient end users. The aim of the study was to develop a simple and rapid method to enable timely release of products.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>The method was developed using a mobile phase prepared with environment-friendly analytical grade solvents: toluene, acetone and glacial acetic acid (10:15:0.2 v/v/v). Diclofenac sodium reference material and samples were chromatographed using pre-coated TLC silica gel 60 F<sub>254</sub> glass plates with a saturation time of 25 minutes and a densitometer detection wavelength of 284 nm in the reflectance absorbance mode. Detection and part of analysis was done using densitometer TLC Scanner 3 operated with Wincats (version 1.4.3) planar chromatograph software.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>A Thin Layer Chromatography (TLC) method for the qualitative and quantitative analysis of diclofenac sodium tablets was developed and validated according to ICH and USP guidelines. The <em>R</em><sub>f</sub> of diclofenac sodium was at 0.60 and the method was repeatable, robust with good selectivity and specificity. Regression functions were established over the range of 250–600 ng/spot with <em>r</em><sup>2</sup> of 0.993 and 0.999 for the linear and polynomial regressions respectively. The accuracy at nominal concentration was found to be 100.2%, and the results of the assay of three brands for diclofenac sodium tablets were found to meet the USP 95–105% assay limits thus demonstrating the usefulness of the method for the assay of these products.</p><p>The developed assay method for diclofenac sodium in tablets is simple, accurate, and inexpensive, with good precision and should be especially useful in resource constrained countries.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100693,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Chemical and Analytical Science","volume":"4 2","pages":"Pages 73-79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.ijcas.2013.05.001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73162487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Satish , R. Punith Kumar , D. Rakshith , S. Satish , Faiyaz Ahmed
{"title":"Antimutagenic and antioxidant activity of Ficus benghalensis stem bark and Moringa oleifera root extract","authors":"A. Satish , R. Punith Kumar , D. Rakshith , S. Satish , Faiyaz Ahmed","doi":"10.1016/j.ijcas.2013.03.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijcas.2013.03.008","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objective</h3><p>To investigate antimutagenic and antioxidant potency of the aqueous heat treated <em>Ficus benghalensis</em> stem bark (FBH) extract and <em>Moringa oleifera</em> root (MRH) extract against sodium azide in TA100 tester strains of <em>Salmonella typhimurium</em> and their inhibition of microsomal lipid peroxidation (LPO).</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>Mutagenicity was assayed by the standard Ames test (standard plate incorporation assay) and antioxidant potency was investigated by employing <em>ex vivo</em> inhibition of lipid peroxidation in liver Microsomes.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>Both FBH and MRH showed strong antimutagenic effect on <em>S. typhimurium</em> TA100 strains against sodium azide (NaN<sub>3</sub>). IC<sub>50</sub> values of aqueous extract of FBH and MRH extracts were 70.24 μg/ml and 99.20 μg/ml respectively. FBH extract showed maximum inhibition of microsomal lipid peroxidation responses than MRH. IC<sub>50</sub> values of aqueous extract of FBH and MRH extracts were 80.24 μg/ml and 92 μg/ml respectively. FBH and MRH exhibited a dose dependent antioxidant activity.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><p>The aqueous heat-treated FBH and MRH have antimutagenic as well as antioxidant activity. Further studies are in progress to evaluate the effect of both extracts by other antioxidant and antimutagenic assays and to identify the factors responsible for these activities.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100693,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Chemical and Analytical Science","volume":"4 2","pages":"Pages 45-48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.ijcas.2013.03.008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74891737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Utilization of 2T engine oil by Pseudomonas sp. isolated from automobile workshop contaminated soil","authors":"Singh Gagandeep, Deepak Kumar Malik","doi":"10.1016/j.ijcas.2013.05.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcas.2013.05.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Aims</h3><p>Hydrocarbon components are carcinogens and neurotoxin organic pollutants. Biodegradation of hydrocarbon-contaminated soils has been established as an efficient, economic, versatile and environmentally sound treatment. Our aim was to isolate the 2T engine degrading bacterial culture from automobile workshop contaminated soil.</p></div><div><h3>Method</h3><p>A total of nineteen morphological different bacterial cultures were isolated by enrichment and pour plate method. The growth of isolated cultures was studied in liquid M9 medium containing 0.5 % 2T engine oil. On the basis of increasing optical density in M9 medium only one bacterial strains GD<sub>18</sub> was selected for further study. On the basis of morphological, physiological and biochemical properties strain GD<sub>18</sub> was tentatively identified as <em>pseudomonas</em> sp. The degradation of 2T engine oil hydrocarbon degradation was checked by GC-MS analysis. The strain GD<sub>18</sub> degraded completely the following hydrocarbons (Tridecane, Tridecane 6 methyl, Dodecane 2, 6, 10 trimethyl, Naphthalene 1, 6 dimethyl, Pentadecane, Hexadecane, Heptadecane 2, 6, 10, 14 tetramethyl, Heneicosane, 11 decyl) with in 10 days.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><p>The strain GD<sub>18</sub> was able to degrade 96.3 % of total hydrocarbons present in 2T engine oil. This is very efficient hydrocarbon degrading bacterial culture and can be used for successfully removal of 2T engine oil from contaminated soil.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100693,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Chemical and Analytical Science","volume":"4 2","pages":"Pages 80-84"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.ijcas.2013.05.002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91727173","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Ramalingam, Ravinder Nath ANISETTI, B. Madhavi, M. Nagulu
{"title":"Invitro free radical scavenging, cytotoxic and acetylcholinesterase inhibitory activities of Leucas martinicensis","authors":"R. Ramalingam, Ravinder Nath ANISETTI, B. Madhavi, M. Nagulu","doi":"10.1016/J.IJCAS.2013.04.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/J.IJCAS.2013.04.005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100693,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Chemical and Analytical Science","volume":"30 1","pages":"91-95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85447343","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}