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1 گروه علوم باغبانی و فضای سبز، دانشکده کشاورزی، دانشگاه فردوسی مشهد، مشهد، ایران
2 گروه بیوتکنولوژی پزشکی و نانوتکنولوژی، دانشکده پزشکی، دانشگاه علوم پزشکی مشهد، مشهد، ایران
3 مرکز تحقیقات فارماکولوژیک گیاهان دارویی، دانشکده پزشکی، دانشگاه علوم پزشکی مشهد، مشهد، ایران
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Introduction
Ganoderma lucidum is a mushroom of high medicinal value that has been widely used in the Far East countries especially in traditional Chinese medicine as promoting human health and treatment of many diseases. Nowadays, many published studies have established that it is a rich source of nutraceutical and pharmaceutical substances with potent and unique properties as immunomodulatory agents, hypercholesterolemic agents, or coadjutant treatments in diseases such as cancer, hypertension, insomnia, anorexia, dizziness, and chronic hepatitis, among others. This species is rich in several bioactive compounds (over 400 compounds) mainly, including polysaccharides, triterpenoids, steroids, fatty acids, amino acids, nucleotides, proteins, and alkaloids. Herein, the fruiting bodies of G. lucidum were studied in terms of nutritional value and chemical composition, and the antioxidant activity of extracts from the fruiting bodies was further assessed.
Materials and Methods
In order to detect nutrient elements, the samples were digested using a microwave digestion system (Milestone Ethos, Germany) with a maximum power of 1000 W and further characterized using inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectroscopy (ICP-OES). Biochemical molecule contents were characterized using Acquity Ultra-Performance Liquid Chromatograph (UPLC, Waters) coupled to a photodiode array detector (PDA, Waters) and an electrospray ionization quadrupole time-of-flight tandem mass spectrometer (ESI–QTOF/MS; Waters). In order to assess antioxidant activity, two kinds of extract including 80% methanolic extract (ME) and hot water (HWE) were prepared by ultrasonic method. Six different in vitro assays were used to determine antioxidant capacity, including ABTS, DPPH, superoxide (SO), nitric oxide (NO) free radicals scavenging, iron-reducing power (FRAP), and iron chelating activity (ICA). The data were analyzed by one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and the means were separated by the Newman-Keuls Multiple Comparison test (GraphPad Prism 8, San Diego, CA, USA). All data were expressed as mean ± standard deviation. P ≤ 0.05 was considered to indicate a statistically significant difference. Furthermore, half-maximal inhibitory concentration (IC50) values for each assay were calculated from linear or logarithmic regression using Excel software.
Results and Discussion
G. lucidum was characterized in terms of nutritional value and chemical composition. Generally, to study the nutraceutical value of G. lucidum, 14 elements were analyzed by ICP-OES. Among the macronutrients, phosphorus and potassium (2910.8 and 1510.8 mg.kg-1 dry matter, respectively) were the most abundant, followed by iron and zinc (8.5 and 7.74 mg.kg-1 dry matter, respectively) among the micronutrients. In terms of biochemical compounds, a total of 37 compounds were identified, among which ganoderic acid was the most abundant compound (15890.1 ± 232.1 μg per g dry matter) followed by sinapic acid and succinic acid (2011.4 ± 28.11 and 1505.33 ± 31.5 μg per g dry matter, respectively). The results of antioxidant assays clearly revealed that the methanolic extract generally showed higher antioxidant activity than the corresponding hot water extract. In the ABTS assay, ME showed higher activity (IC50, 48.46 ± 2.42 µg.ml-1) than HWE (163.51 ± 4.51 µg.ml-1) with a significant difference (P ≤ 0.05). For DPPH assay, radical scavenging capacity was dose-dependent and IC50 values of ME (111.93 ± 1.39 µg.ml-1) and HWE (213.48 ± 5.42 µg.ml-1) showed a significant difference (P ≤ 0.05). In the FRAP assay, ME showed stronger iron-reducing activity (IC50, 512.64 ± 4.06 µg.ml-1) than HWE (IC50, 898.51 ± 7.8 µg.ml-1) (P ≤ 0.01). In the ICA assay, ME also showed higher activity (IC50, 301.88 ± 7.01µg.ml-1) than HWE (IC50, 545.23 ± 1.21 µg.ml-1) (P ≤ 0.01). In the SO assay, ME (IC50, 488.8 ± 7.38 µg.ml-1) and HWE (IC50, 645.92 ± 5.48 µg.ml-1) showed a significant difference (P ≤ 0.01). In addition, in the NO assay, both extracts showed weak nitric oxide radical scavenging activity; however, ME showed the highest activity (IC50, 1189.5 ± 8.5 µg.ml-1) in comparison to HWE (IC50, 1343.2 ± 10.6 µg.ml-1) but the difference was not statistically significant (P = 0.0901). The results clearly indicate that different extraction solvents used in this study significantly affected antioxidant capacities.
Conclusion
G. lucidum proved to be an important source of nutrients and antioxidant compounds such as terpenoids, especially triterpenoids, and polysaccharides. The free radical scavenging properties, reducing power and iron-chelating activity of G. lucidum may be mainly associated with phenolic compounds and triterpenoids. Therefore, based on the nutritional and biochemical profile of G. lucidum, and also its antioxidant power, this mushroom possesses high nutritional and antioxidant potential.
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