Anti-quorum Sensing Effetcs of Ethanolic Crude Extract of Anethum graveolens L.

Abstract

In the recent years, effort to interfere with the quorum sensing (QS) has taken researchers consideration into the discovery and identification of bioactive compounds secreted by prokaryotes and eukaryotes. In this research, the anti-QS activity of thirty one plant species was detected through the inhibition of the QS related behaviors, violacein pigmentation in Chromobacterium violaceum CV026 and plant tissue maceration in Pectobacterium carotovorum. The results revealed that the arial parts extract of seven plant species interfered quorum sensing phenotypes in bacteria which amoung them, the dill (Anethum graveolens L.) extract effectively inhibited violacein production in CV026 and singificantly reduced tissue maceration in test plants. The result substantiates that the dill extract has decreased (>13 mm) violacein production in biosensor besides possessing slight antimicrobial property (<7.5 mm). Both potato tubers and calla-lily slices inoculated with Pcc-extract showed significant reduction in tissue maceration, while the tubers and slices inoculated with Pcc and Pcc-DMSO were strongly macerated. GC-MS analysis of the A. graveolens extract indicated that the oil was consisted eight phytocompounds of which the Eugenol (49.62 %) as major component. This results suggest that plants have mimic quorum-sensing signals which could be serving as potential sources to disrupt quorum sensing in associated bacteria.