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EVALUATION OF ANTIMICROBIAL, ANTIOXIDANT AND ENZYME INHIBITION ROLES OF POLAR AND NON-POLAR EXTRACTS OF CLITORIA TERNATEA SEEDS
Z. Mushtaq1, U. Khan, N. Seher, M. Shahid, M. T. Shahzad, A. A. Bhatti, T. Sikander

1Bioactive Molecules Research lab (BMRL), Department of Biochemistry, 2Medicinal Biochemistry Lab, Department of Biochemistry, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan. 38000

Corresponding Author: zahidmushtaquaf@uaf.edu.pk
Page Number(s): 1405-1418
Published Online First: January 24, 2021
Publication Date: August 01, 2026
ABSTRACT

Clitoria ternatea is one of the medicinal plants of fabaceae family that have been traditionally useful in herbal medicine. In present study, the invitro antimicrobial, antioxidant and enzyme inhibition assay of polar and non-polar extracts/fractions of Clitoria ternatea seeds were evaluated. The antimicrobial activity was done by well diffusion assay while MIC was done by serial dilution method. Crude ethanolic extract showed maximum antibacterial activity against B. subtilus (17.6 mm ±0.17). Ethyl acetate extract showed maximum MIC at 0.156 μg/mL against E. coli. In addition, Crude methanolic extract showed maximum antifungal activity against Aspergillus parasiticus (16 mm ±0.27). The antioxidant activity was done by DPPH and FRAP assay. Crude methanolic extract showed maximum antioxidant activity by DPPH assay (86.26%) while crude methanolic extract exhibit maximum reducing power 370.19 % ± 20.50. Moreover, n-hexane extract possessed highest phenolic content (272.16 ± 17.96 GAE µg/g), crude methanolic extract possessed highest flavonoid content (275.5 ± 8.24 GAE µg/g). The highest enzyme inhibition assay was observed in crude methanolic extract (α-amylase), n-hexane extract and water-soluble residue exhibited 50% pepsin enzyme inhibition. The results concluded that most of the extracts/fractions obtained from Clitoria seeds showed significant biological activities and can act as promising source of natural therapeutic agents and can be used for future drug developmental studies.

Keywords: Clitoria ternatea, α-amylase, therapeutic, antibacterial, antioxidant, fractions
Open Access: This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).


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