Antioxidant Flavonoid Glycoside from Leaves of Cacao Mistletoe ( Scurrula ferruginea  (Jack) Danser)

Mai Efdi; Dara Pratama; Afrizal Itam; Tia Okselni

doi:10.22146/ijc.72133

Antioxidant Flavonoid Glycoside from Leaves of Cacao Mistletoe (Scurrula ferruginea (Jack) Danser)

https://doi.org/10.22146/ijc.72133

Mai Efdi^(1*), Dara Pratama⁽²⁾, Afrizal Itam⁽³⁾, Tia Okselni⁽⁴⁾

(1) Department of Chemistry, Universitas Andalas, Kampus Limau Manis, Padang 25163, West Sumatra, Indonesia
(2) Department of Chemistry, Universitas Andalas, Kampus Limau Manis, Padang 25163, West Sumatra, Indonesia
(3) Department of Chemistry, Universitas Andalas, Kampus Limau Manis, Padang 25163, West Sumatra, Indonesia
(4) Research Center for Pharmaceutical Ingredients and Traditional Medicine, National Research and Innovation Agency, Jl. Raya Bogor Km 46, Cibinong, Bogor 16911, West Java, Indonesia
(*) Corresponding Author

Abstract

Scurrula ferruginea (Jack) Danser is a folk medicine to treat several diseases. S. ferruginea is the mistletoe that lives by deriving nutrients from the host. Hence, the host has a significant effect on the biological activities and bioactive components of S. ferruginea. In this study, the leaves of S. ferruginea were macerated by methanol solvent to extract the chemical components and fractionated by hexane and ethyl acetate solvent, respectively, to separate organic compounds. The biological activity of crude extracts as the antioxidant was investigated by 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) method. The result showed that the highest antioxidant activity was obtained from the ethyl acetate fraction with the IC₅₀ of 10.88 ± 0.39 µg/mL. Furthermore, the trituration method used several solvents to isolate secondary metabolites from the initial crude methanol extract. This purification process produced a flavonoid compound of quercitrin. The antioxidant activity of quercitrin was also determined by the DPPH method. The result showed that this compound has stronger activity than the crude extracts with the IC₅₀ of 5.95 ± 0.11 µg/mL. This study demonstrated that cacao mistletoe of S. ferruginea may have the potential activity to treat the diseases caused by the presence of free radicals.

Keywords

Scurrula ferruginea leaves; antioxidant; quercitrin

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.22146/ijc.72133