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Received 6 March 2013
Accepted 11 March 2013
Available online 2 April 2013
Keywords:
Ethnopharmacological approach
Natural sources deriving compounds
Activity-oriented separation hyphenated
techniques
Drug discovery
Traditional medicines
a b s t r a c t
The phytochemical research based on ethnopharmacology is considered an effective approach in the
discovery of novel chemicals entities with potential as drug leads. Plants/plant extracts/decoctions, used
by folklore traditions for treating several diseases, represent a source of chemical entities but no information are available on their nature. Starting from this viewpoint, the aim of this review is to address
natural-products chemists to the choice of the best methodologies, which include the combination of
extraction/sample preparation tools and analytical techniques, for isolating and characterizing bioactive
secondary metabolites from plants, as potential lead compounds in the drug discovery process. The work
is distributed according to the different steps involved in the ethnopharmacological approach (extraction, sample preparation, biological screening, etc.), discussing the analytical techniques employed for
the isolation and identication of compound/s responsible for the biological activity claimed in the traditional use (separation, spectroscopic, hyphenated techniques, etc.). Particular emphasis will be on herbal
medicines applications and developments achieved from 2010 up to date.
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Contents
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Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Extraction techniques and sample preparation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2.1.
Extraction techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2.2.
Sample preparation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Biological screening and separation activity-oriented . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Hyphenated chromatographic techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Acknowledgement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1. Introduction
Plants, animals and micro-organisms represent a reservoir of
natural products, the so called natural sources deriving compounds. Particularly, the plant kingdom offers a variety of species
still used as remedies for several diseases in many parts of the
world such as Asia [1,2], Africa [36] and South America [7].
Even if, as reported by World Health Organization [8], traditional
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medicines represent the primary health care system for the 60%
of the worlds population, the plant species with possible biological activity remain largely unexplored [9]. As stated by Newman
and Cragg in a recent review [10]: natural product and/or natural product structures continued to play a highly signicant role in
the drug discovery and development process. Thus, biodiversity
represents an unlimited source of novel chemicals entities (NCE)
with potential as drug leads. These NCE are secondary metabolites,
synthesized by plants as defence against herbivores and pathogens
or attraction of pollinating agent, and can be grouped in three main
chemical families: alkaloids, terpenoids and phenolic compounds.
A review from Kashani et al. [11] recently highlights the pharmacological properties of some well known secondary metabolites
Plant
material
Extraction
Conventional
techniques
Maceration
Infusion
Decoction
Boiling under reflux
Non conventional
techniques
Microwave assisted
extraction
Ultrasound assisted
extraction
Supercritical fluid
extraction
Pressurized liquid
extraction
Hydrotropic extraction
Enzyme-assisted
extraction
Biological
assay
In vitro
Antibacterial
/antifungal assays
Chemical assays
Enzymatic assay
Sample
preparation
Activity oriented
separation
Structure
elucidation
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Phytocomplex/
single
molecule
General pretreatment
Liquid-liquid extraction
Solid phase extraction
Gel filtration
Phase-trafficking
Off-line
Preparative scale bioguided fractionation
HPLC microfractionation
Off-line
UV-DAD
MS
NMR
Pre-concentration for
specific classes
ofcompounds
Gel filtration
Solid phase extraction
Molecularly imprinted
polymers
Macroporous
absorption resin
On-line
HPLC post-column
(bio)chemical detection
Biochromatography
Electrophoretic enzyme
assays
Hyphenated
techniques
HPLC-UV-DAD
HPLC-MSn
GC-MS
HPLC-SPE-NMR
UPLC-DAD-TOF-MS
and many recent papers report the activity of new and/or less
known alkaloids [1214], terpenoids [15,16] and phenolic compounds [1719] giving a direct evidence of the crucial role of
natural products as potential sources of various modern pharmaceuticals. However, secondary metabolites are often present in low
quantity in plant material and their extraction, purication and
characterization still remain a great challenge in the drug discovery process. Several reviews have been recently published giving
an overview on sample preparations [2022] and characterization
[2325]. Although exhaustive in the treated eld, these reviews
basically deal with the chemotaxonomy-oriented approach: the
plant species selected for screening are known to contain specic
secondary metabolites (alkaloids, steroids, amino acids, etc.); thus,
the choice of the more appropriate extraction methodology and
the more suitable analytical technique is performed in order to
achieve the best extraction/purication/separation of the desired
secondary metabolite.
In the ethnopharmacological approach, the main requirement is
the knowledge of the plant parts traditionally employed as remedies. The two main traditional medicines, Chinese and Ayurveda,
have their ancient texts in the Chinese Materia Medica written by
Shizhen at the time of the Ming Dynasty [26] and the ayurvedic
Charaka Samhita written in Sanskrit probably around 400200
before the common era, respectively. Both texts are now available
as English version [27,28] and still used as references for herbal
remedies [2931]. Where tests are not available, the ethnobotanical
survey is the only method for acquiring information on medicinal
plants traditional use.
The phytochemical research based on ethnopharmacology is
considered an effective approach in NCE discovery, however in
this case no information are available on the nature of secondary
metabolite; thus all the extraction/purication/separation processes are performed in order to nd and follow the supposed
pharmacological activity with the nal aim to isolate and identify
the bioactive compound/s.
Starting from the ethnopharmacological approach, the aim of
this review is to address natural-products chemists to the choice
of the best methodologies, which include the combination of
extraction/sample preparation tools and analytical techniques, for
isolating and characterizing bioactive NCE from plants, as potential lead compounds in the drug discovery process. A particular
attention will be focused on herbal medicines applications and
developments achieved from 2010 up to date.
An overview on the methodologies (extractive, biological, analytical) involved in the selected approach is shown in Fig. 1.
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Lyophilized
Water extract
Exhausted Residue
Hexane extract
CH2Cl2
Concentrated under
vacuum
Residue
CH2Cl2 extract
EtOAc
Concentrated under
vacuum
MeO H
Residue
EtOAc extract
Concentrated under
vacuum
MeOH extract
Exhausted Residue
Fig. 2. Flowchart of conventional extraction process (maceration, decoction, reux, soxhlet) in water and in solvents of increasing polarity.
normally insoluble. When amphiphilic salts, are employed as solvents, the extraction is called hydrotropic extraction. Desai and
Parikh recently reported the hydrotropic extraction of citral from
the leaves of Cymbopogon exuosus (Steud.) Wats. [56]. Sodium salicylate and sodium cumene sulfonate were used as solvents; the
results obtained after optimization of the experimental conditions
by means of the opportune statistical and kinetic studies, conrmed
the feasibility of the proposed method.
Aqueous solution of sodium cumene sulfonate allowed a faster
extraction of reserpine from Rauwola vomitoria roots and higher
yield, compared to the conventional extraction with methanol [57];
however, the authors underlined the need of further studies since
reserpine crystals obtained with hydrotropic solvent showed different morphology respect to those obtained with methanol.
Enzyme-assisted extraction is a promising and biotechnological alternative extraction methodology. In a recent review Puri
et al. [58] reported the use of enzymes, such as cellulases, pectinases and hemicellulase, in the extraction of bioactive compounds
from plants highlighting advantages and disadvantages of this technique, compared with the conventional. The main disadvantage is
the need to nd specic enzymes for specic substrates thus further studies are necessary for increasing the feasibility of enzyme
assisted extraction.
Although each non-conventional extraction technique has
undeniable advantages, this overview clearly points out that none
can be dened universal. When the nature of secondary metabolites is known, (we know what we are looking for) the choice
becomes easier since easier is the selection of the parameters affecting the extraction process and their later optimization.
When nothing or little is known about the nature of secondary
metabolites, as in the ethnopharmacological approach (we only
have an hypothesis on the biological activity), all extracts are potentially of biological interest and the selection of the more appropriate
extraction method is performed in order to mimic the herbal
drugs, as described in the traditional remedies.
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WE
0
10
20
30
20
30
40
50
60
min
HE
0
10
40
50
60
min
DME
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
min
20
30
40
50
60
min
20
30
40
50
60
min
EAE
0
10
ME
10
Fig. 3. Chromatographic ngerprinting of Diospyros bipindensis extracts obtained from water (WE) and from solvents of increasing polarity: n-hexane (HE), dichloromethane
(DME), ethyl acetate (EAE), methanol (ME).
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Table 1
Off-line and on-line methods and strategies applied to activity-oriented separation.
Activity-oriented separation
Off-line methods
Techniques
Strategy
Bio-guided fractionation
Micro-fractionation bioactivity-integrated ngerprint
On-line methods
Biochromatography
Electrophoretic enzyme assays
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Table 2
Hyphenated chromatographic techniques.
HPLC-UV
HPLC-DAD
HPLC-ELSD
HPLCMS
HPLC-NMR
Advantages
Disadvantages
Applications
- ease of use
- widespread
- low cost
- linearity
- versatility
- ease of use
- limited on-line structural information
- assessment of peak purity
- can compensate the low sensitivity
by choosing a wavelength with the
highest extinction coefcient
- moderate low cost
- universal
- ease of use
- widespread
- low cost
- specic
- sensitive
- compatible with gradient elution
- universal
- sensitive
- specic
- widespread
- structural information (MW,
molecular formula and diagnostic
fragments)
- universal
- full structural information
- stereochemical information
- expensive
- usually not compatible with non volatile
buffer
- eluent modiers can cause ion
suppression
- compound-dependent response
- expensive
- need of deuterated mobile phase
- non selective
- need for solvent suppression.
- low sensitivity
spectroscopic information to conrm the identity of known natural products or to partially identify unknown metabolites. In this
respect, HPLC-NMR can yield important complementary information or even a complete structural assignment of natural products
[125127]. HPLC-NMR should ideally enable the complete structural characterization of any molecule directly in an extract, if
its corresponding LC peak is clearly resolved. However, there are
several limiting factors of online HPLC-NMR, in particular low
sensitivity and the need for solvent suppression, that cause analyte signals localized under the solvent resonances to be lost. In
order to circumvent these problems, approaches as SPE-NMR, or
HPLC microfractionation of the extract followed by concentration
and re-injection in deuterated solvent by using microow capillary HPLC-NMR (CapNMR), are successfully applied [128,129]. The
instruments are usually operated in on ow (continuous ow) or
stop ow modes. Applications of on-ow HPLC-NMR analyses to
crude extract proling have been recently reported for example for
alkaloids [130] and terpenes [131]. A summary of advantages, disadvantages, and application of the hyphenated techniques is shown
in Table 2.
5. Conclusion
The one disease one drug paradigm, the key theory of the modern drug discovery, seems to have lost sheen because of the growth
of multigenic diseases. From this viewpoint traditional medicines
represent a source of multitarget therapeutics; in fact, very often
the secondary metabolites contained in complex plant extracts
work synergistically and rarely a single molecule/metabolite is
responsible for the biological activity found.
Due to the chemo-diversity of secondary metabolites and
since any kind of pharmacological activity might be found,
the role of analysis in the ethnopharmacological approach is
fundamental. As highlighted in this review, several extraction/purication/separation processes can be applied but the
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