NATURAL PRODUCT RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ›› 2010, Vol. 23 ›› Issue (6): 952-955.

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Chemical Composition and Antibacterial Activity of the Volatile Oil from the Endophytic Fungus Dzf12 Associated with Dioscorea zingiberensis

SHAN Ti-jiang, ZHAO Jiang-lin, WANG Ji-hua, ZHANG Ying, QIU Yi, SUN Huan, ZHOU Li-gang*   

  1. College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
  • Received:2010-03-31 Online:2011-01-10 Published:2011-10-19

Abstract:

The volatile oil was extracted with a yield of 0.276% on fresh weight basis by hydro-distillation from Dzf12, an endophytic fungus isolated from Dioscorea zingiberensis. The oil was analyzed for its chemical compositions by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Methyl hexadecanoate (22.63%), methyl (E)-9-octadecenoate (8.30%), methyl (E,E)-9,12-octadecadienoate (8.12%), 2,6-di-tert-butyl-4-methylphenol (6.79%), tetradecane (6.69%), and dodecane (5.88%) were the major compounds of the 30 identified components which accounted for 95.47% of the total volatile oil. The in vitro antibacterial activities of the oil on eight bacteria were investigated. The minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) and median inhibitory concentration (IC50) values of the oil against the test bacteria ranged from 0.75 mg/mL to 2.00 mg/mL and from 0.62 mg/mL to 1.55 mg/mL, respectively. One of the most sensitive bacteria was Xanthomonas vesicatoria with the MIC and IC50 values to be 0.75 mg/mL and 0.62 mg/mL, respectively. These results indicated that the endophytic fungus Dzf12 would be a candidate for producing biodiesel as well as a potential source for producing antimicrobial components.

Key words: Dioscorea zingiberensis, endophytic fungal isolate Dzf12, volatile oil, antibacterial activity