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Structure and Activity of the Camellia Oleifera Sapogenin Derivatives on Growth and Biofilm Inhibition of Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli Chunfang Zhu, Meng Zhang, Qiaoling Tang, Qian Yang, Jing Li, Xuan He, and Yong Ye J. Agric. Food Chem., Just Accepted Manuscript • DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.9b03577 • Publication Date (Web): 30 Aug 2019 Downloaded from pubs.acs.org on August 30, 2019

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Structure and Activity of the Camellia Oleifera Sapogenin Derivatives on

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Growth and Biofilm Inhibition of Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia

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coli

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Chunfang Zhu1, Meng Zhang1, Qiaoling Tang1, Qian Yang1, Jing Li1*, Xuan

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He2, Yong Ye1,2*

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1 Department

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Chemical Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou

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510640, P R China

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of Pharmaceutical Engineering, School of Chemistry and

Gannan Medical University Collaborative Innovation Center for Gannan

Oil-tea Camellia Industrial Development, Ganzhou 341000, P R China

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Short title:

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Antibacterial effects of the sapogenin derivatives

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* Correspondence author:

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Yong Ye, Jing Li

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Department of Pharmaceutical Engineering, School of Chemistry and

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Chemical Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou

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510640, China

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Tel: +86-20-87110234

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Email: [email protected], [email protected]

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ABSTRACT: Sapogenin is the main block of Camellia oleifera saponin, which

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was purified and structurally modified by C28 acylation reaction to synthesize

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19 new derivatives. The growth and biofilm inhibition of Staphylococcus aureus

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and Escherichia coli was measured to evaluate their antibacterial effects.

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Three-dimensional quantitative structure-activity relationship (3D-QSAR)

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assay indicated that the antibacterial activities were significantly enhanced

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after the sapogenin was modified with aromatic ring or heterocyclic ring and

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electron-withdrawing substituents at the meta or para position. Among them

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the derivative of sapogenin with 2-mercapto-4-methyl -5-thiazolyl acetyl group

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obviously destroyed bacterial biofilm and made bacteria lysis. 3D-QSAR

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provides practical information for structural design of sapogenin derivatives

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with strong antibacterial activity, and the Camellia oleifera sapogenin

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derivative

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tetrahydroxy- oleantel- 2-Ene- 23-aldehyde (S-16) is an effective candidate of

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antibacterial agent for prevention of bacterial resistance against antibiotics.

28-O-(2-mercapto-4-methyl-5-thiazolyl)-

3β,16α,21β,22α-O-

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KEYWORDS: sapogenin, derivative, Camellia oleifera, antibiofilm effect,

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3D-QSAR assay, bacterial resistance

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INTRODUCTION

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Antibiotics play important roles in the therapy of pathogenic microorganism

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infection for a long time. However, due to abuse of antibiotics, the constant

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increase of drug-resistant bacteria has become great threats to animals and

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human being as well as severe challenges to therapy.1,2 It is meaningful to

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develop alternative new antibacterial agents without resistance. Recent

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researches focus on natural products because of their complex structure and

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multiple targeting mechanisms,3-5 which can be exploited as antibiotic

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substitutes with a lower propensity of bacterial resistance.

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The saponin isolated from the seeds of Camellia oleifera Abel, has a wide

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range of pharmacological activities, such as antibacterial, anti-inflammatory,

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analgesic, insecticidal, anticancer, inhibition of alcohol absorption, lowering

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blood lipids and so on,6,7 indicating its multi-targeting roles. As a by-product or

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waste of oil manufacture, Camellia saponin has become an abundant, cheap

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resource in China, and made it possible to be extracted as an antibiotic

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substitute or drug candidate. Our previous research has found that the

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Camellia saponin has less bacterial resistance.8 However, its effects and

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qualities are unstable because of inconsistent structures even in the same

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variety. In order to acquire the uniform structure of compounds we hydrolyzed

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the saponin, and separated the main block called sapogenin from it.9 We have

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also found that the sapogenin is the main active compound, but its activity

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against Gram-negative bacteria is still low.8 It is possible to improve its activity

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by structural modification.

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The sapogenin is a multi-hydroxyl structure (Figure 1), including secondary

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hydroxyl group at C3, C16, C21, C22 and primary hydroxyl group C28 which is

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active to be modified. The acylation reaction can improve the antimicrobial

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activity of compounds.10 Therefore, we modified the structure of Camellia

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oleifera sapogenin by C28 acylation reaction to synthesize a series of new

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Camellia oleifera sapogenin derivatives, and tested their antibacterial and

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antibiofilm activities on Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli in order to

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reveal the structure-activity relationship between sapogenin derivatives and

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antibiofilm and find out useful antibacterial agents.

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MATERIALS AND METHODS

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Materials. The defatted seeds of Camellia oleifera were collected from The

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Oil Factory in Meizhou of Guangdong province, China. The saponin was

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isolated from the defatted seeds with methanol, and purified with macroporous

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resin and successively hydrolyzed by acid and alkaline to obtain Camellia

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oleifera

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4-dimethylaminopyridine

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3-ethylcarbodiinide hydrochloride (EDC·HCl) and Mueller-Hinton broth were

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purchased from Shanghai Aladdin Biological Chemical Company (Shanghai,

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China). Reagents for structural modification such as acetic anhydride,

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chloroacetyl chloride, trifluoroacetic anhydride, maleic anhydride, benzoyl

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chloride, m-chlorobenzyl chloride, m-fluorobenzyl chloride, m-bromobenzyl

sapogenin

in

our

research.9

previous

(DMAP),

Amoxicillin,

1-(3-dimethylaminopropyl)-

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chloride, m-methyl benzoyl chloride, 4-nitrobenzoyl chloride, 4-methoxy

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benzoyl chloride, 2-thiophene formyl chloride, 2-furan formyl chloride, salicylic

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acid,

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2-mercapto-4-methyl-5-thiazole acetic acid,

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chloride,

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N,N-dimethylformamide (DMF), triethylamine (TEA) and other solvents were

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purchased from Energy Chemical Company (Shanghai, China). All reagents

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were of analytical without further purification.

5-bromosalicylic

acid,

tetrachloro

triphenylchloromethane

phthalic

anhydride,

p-acetylaminobenzenesulfonyl

(TrCl),

phthalic

anhydride,

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Bacterial strains and culture. The control strains of Staphylococcus

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aureus (ATCC 29213) and Escherichia coli (ATCC 25922) were purchased

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from Guangdong Microbiology Culture Center (Guangdong, China). All

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bacterial strains were activated, and cultured at 37ºC in MH broth. Drug

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resistant E. coli and S. aureus strains were induced by amoxicillin according to

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the reference.11

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Synthesis of sapogenin derivatives. The synthetic route of Camellia

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oleifera sapogenin derivatives was illustrated in Figure 2. Firstly, Camellia

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oleifera sapogenin was dissolved in pyridine with its C28 primary hydroxyl

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group protected by TrCl. Secondly, acetic acid anhydride was added to protect

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C3, C6, C21 and C22 secondary hydroxyl groups in the condition of DMF as the

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solvent, and TEA as the catalyst. Thirdly, formic acid was added to remove the

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tritylmethyl group so that C28 hydroxyl group is exposed to react with a series

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of acylation reagents by using DMAP as a catalyst.12 At last, the acetyl

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protecting groups of the secondary hydroxyl group were removed by acyl

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chloride,13 and Camellia oleifera sapogenin derivatives were collected from

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silica gel column chromatography with elution of petroleum ether/ethyl

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acetate/acetic acid at volume ratio of 20/10/1. The detailed procedures for

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intermediates 1a−3a and Camellia sapogenin derivatives are available in the

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Supporting Information.

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Structural Analysis. IR spectra were measured on VERTEX 70 FI-IR

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spectrometer (Bruker Company, Germany) with KBr tablets from 4000 to 400

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cm-1 with resolution 2 cm-1. Mass spectra were recorded on Bruker maXis

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Mass spectrometer with ESI (Bruker Company, Germany) in m/z of cation

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model scanning from 150 -1200 for 60 min. NMR spectra were determined on

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400 MHz AM NMR (Bruker Company, Switzerland) in C2D6SO operating at

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101 MHz for 13C NMR and 400 MHz for 1H NMR.

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Structure-activity relationship. Comparative molecular force analysis

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(CoMFA)

was

used

to

analyze

the

three-dimensional

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structure-activity relationship (3D-QSAR) of Camellia oleifera sapogenin and

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its derivatives.14 Twenty compounds were divided into a training set and a test

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set, and molecular structures were optimized by Tripos force field and

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Gasteiger-Huckel charge with the most active derivative as a template for

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molecular superposition. The QSAR equation was obtained by partial least

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square method (PLS) with a negative logarithm of 50% inhibition concentration

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(pMIC50) as the dependent variable and molecular stereoscopic field energy or

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electrostatic field energy as the independent variable. The optimum principal

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component value and cross validation coefficient q2 were determined by

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Leave-One-Out (LOO) method, and the correlation coefficient (r2), standard

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deviation (s) and F value of 3D-QSAR model were obtained by

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non-cross-validation method.

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Bacteria growth inhibition and biofilm inhibition assay. The antibacterial

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activity of Camellia oleifera sapogenin and its derivatives against S. aureus

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and E. coli was tested using the microbroth dilution method.15 The bacteria

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were diluted to 5×105 CFU/mL by sterile MH broth. The sapogenin derivatives

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were dissolved respectively in DMSO to make 128 mg/mL solution, and diluted

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by MH liquid medium (Contains 1% Tween 80) to make the series of final

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concentrations at 2560, 1280, 640, 320, 160, 80, 40, 20, 10 and 5 μg/mL. A

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similar method was used to dilute amoxicillin.

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Sapogenin derivatives diluents (100 μL) and amoxicillin diluents (100 μL)

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were sequentially added into the 96 well plates, which were inoculated with

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100 μL tested bacteria (5×105 CFU/mL) in each well. Amoxicillin was used as a

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positive control, and sterile MH broth, DMSO (1%, v/v) and Tween 80 (0.05%,

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v/v) acted as negative controls. 96 well plates were incubated at 37°C for 24 h.

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The optical density value at wavelength of 600 nm (OD600) were measured by

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CYTATION5 micro-plate spectrometer (BioTeck Company, America) and

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bacterial growth inhibition rate was calculated as follow. The minimum

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inhibitory concentration on 50% bacterial strains was calculated as MIC50.

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Negative OD600  Drug OD600 100% Negative OD600

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Bacterial growth inhibition rate(%) 

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50 μL of negative control group suspensions were coated on Muller Hinton

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agar evenly and cultivated at 37°C for 24 h. Bacterial colonies in the plates

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were counted to calculate the number of bacteria in the corresponding wells.

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Minimum

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concentration of drug required to kill more than 99.99% of the tested strains

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according to the CLSI standard.16,17

bactericidal

concentration

(MBC)

indicates

the

minimum

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Bacterial biofilm experiments were carried out by crystal violet staining.18,19

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After culture medium was removed from 96 well plates and washed 3 times

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with PBS (0.1 M, pH=7.4), 0.1% crystal violet solution (100 μL) was added in

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each well to dye the biofilm. 15 min later, the solution was aspirated. All wells

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were washed 3 times with PBS (0.1 M, pH=7.4), and then 33% glacial acetic

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acid solution (100 μL) was added to extract crystal violet from the biofilm. The

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absorbance in 570 nm (OD570) was measured to calculate the biofilm inhibition

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rate. The minimum concentration of drug required to inhibit biofilm formation by

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50% of the tested strains was calculated as MBIC50. Negative OD570  Drug OD570  100% Negative OD570

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Biofilm inhibition rate(%) 

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Bacterial morphology observation. Transmission electron microscopy

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was used to observe the morphology of S. aureus and E. coli. In short,

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Bacteria were treated with 1× MBIC and 2 × MICs Camellia oleifera sapogenin

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derivatives and washed with phosphate buffer saline (PBS) for three times.

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Then the samples were fixed with 2.5% glutaraldehyde for 12 h at 4°C and

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rinsed twice with phosphate buffer saline (PBS) and further fixed with 1%

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osmium tetroxide for 12 h, then dehydrated with a graded ethanol. The

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obtained bacteria were embedded in a mixture of Spurr resin and acetone (v:

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v=3:1) for 12 h, sectioned, stained with uranyl acetate and imaged under

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JEM-1400 Plus transmission electron microscopy (Japan Electron Optics

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Laboratory Co Ltd, Tokyo, Japan).

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Biofilm integrity assay. The bacteria were respectively diluted to 2.3×108

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CFU/mL, and added with Camellia oleifera sapogenin derivatives (1× MBIC, 2

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× MICs, 4 × MICs,100 μL) or amoxicillin (1 mM,100 μL), and then 10 μL of

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SYTOX GREEN dye (5 μM) was added and incubated at 37°C for 1 h. 10 μL of

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each bacterial solution was transferred to a slide and observed under an IX83

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inverted fluorescence microscope (Japan Olympus co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan) at

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420-485 nm of excitation wavelength. Fluorescent dots could be found if the

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biofilm integrity is damaged.20

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Interaction with Bacterial Mannitol -1-phosphate dehydrogenase.

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Bacterial mannitol -1-phosphate dehydrogenase (M1PDH) is an important

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factor in inducing bacterial resistance.21 The interaction between the

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sapogenin or its derivatives and M1PDH was investigated by the protocol of

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semi-flexible docking (CDOCKER) in Discovery Studio V3.0.8 Structural data of

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M1PDH were downloaded from Protein Data Bank. After removing water

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protein was defined as the receptor, the sapogenin and its derivatives

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molecules were defined as ligands. CHARMm force field was applied to

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ensure correct bond length, bond angle in a state of energy stability. Running

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the program to obtain CDOCKER energy and CDOCKER interaction energy

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which are two important parameters to analyze the affinity and action force

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between the receptor and ligand.6

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Activity of mannitol -1-phosphate dehydrogenase in bacterial biofilm.

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The sapogenin, its derivatives and amoxicillin were diluted to final drug

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concentration at 1000, 500, 250, 100, 50, 20, 10, 5 and 1 μM for 48 h bacteria

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culture, the biofilm was homogenized in 500 μL of 50 mM phosphate buffer (pH

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5.5), 10 μL of the supernatant was taken for enzyme activity determination.

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The activity of bacterial mannitol -1-phosphate dehydrogenase (M1PDH) was

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determined from the decrease in NADH by measuring the absorbance of

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NADH at 340 nm.8 The reaction mixture contained sodium phosphate buffer

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(200 mM, pH 5.5, 50 μL), NADH (2 mM, 50 μL), water (50 μL) and bacterial

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biofilm extract (10 μL) . The mixture was maintained at 32°C for 2 min, and the

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reaction was started by adding 40 μL of 1 M fructose and lasted for 5 min. The

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absorbance at 340 nm was detected by UV-3010 spectrometer (Hitachi

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Company, Japan).

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Statistical Analysis. Data were expressed as mean ± standard deviation

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( x  s ), and analyzed with SPSS17.0 software. Significant tests among the

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groups were based on one-way ANOVA and Student-Newman-Keuls (SNK)

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test.

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RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

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Structure of the sapogenin derivatives. The purified sapogenin is

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amorphous powder with a purity of 91.62% by HP1100 HPLC (Agilent

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Company, USA) in the following operating conditions: column: Hypersil ODS

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(250 × 4.6 mm, 5 μm); flow phase: methanol/water (80/20); injection volume:

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10 μL; flow rate: 1 mL/min; temperature: 25°C; wavelength: 218 nm. IR spectra,

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1H

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formula C30H48O5, which is consistent with our former literature.9

NHR and

13C

NMR data showed that it had a sapogenin structure with

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19 derivatives of sapogenin were synthesized with different substituent

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groups in C28 position, and their yields are listed in Table 1. All products were

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measured by IR, MS, 1H-NMR and 13C-NMR to confirm their structures.

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Synthetic methods of Camellia sapogenin derivative S-(1-19) and the key

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intermediates,1H NMR and

13C

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sapogenin derivative S-(1-19) (C2D6SO as solvent) were shown in supporting

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information file, which is available online.

NMR spectrum for sapogenin and Camellia

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Antibacterial and anti-biofilm activity. With the solvents as a negative

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control, the bacterial growth inhibition rate (MIC50), the minimum bactericidal

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concentration (MBC) and the bacterial biofilm growth inhibition rate (MBIC50) of

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the sapogenin and its derivatives (S-1 to S-19) against S. aureus and E. coli

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were calculated to evaluate the effect of C28 hydroxyl modification of the

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sapogenin on antibacterial activity (Table 2). The results showed that

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amoxicillin had no inhibition on bacterial growth and biofilm formation of S.

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aureus and E. coli, suggesting bacterial resistant against amoxicillin.

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Compared with the saponin and the sapogenin, antibacterial activity of the

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sapogenin derivatives was significantly improved, especially the activity of

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aromatic ring or heterocyclic ring and electron-withdrawing group modified

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derivatives. It may be attributed to the structural change of the sapogenin and

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its derivatives easily binding to the bacterial membranes, and taking effects

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significantly.8,22

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28-O-(2-mercapto-4-methyl-5-thiazolyl)-

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oleantel- 2-Ene- 23-aldehyde (S-16) had the most powerful antibacterial and

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antibiofilm activities, which is about three hundred times stronger than the

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sapogenin. Its mechanism deserves further investigation.

Among

them

the

sapogenin

3β,16α,21β,22α-O-

derivative tetrahydroxy-

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Structure-activity relationship. The parameters of the CoMFA model were

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shown in Table 3. If the cross-validation coefficient q2>0.5 and the

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non-cross-validation regression coefficient r2>0.8, then the obtained model has

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reliable predictive ability.14 Therefore, a good predictive CoMFA model with the

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cross-validation coefficient q2=0.556 and the non-cross-validation regression

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coefficient r2=0.982 was established in this experiment. The model was used

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to predict the biological activity of the training set and the test set compound

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(Figure 3), the correlation between the predicted value and the experimental

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value of the model reached 0.914 (p2202.42

373.38±7.23

719.40±8.41

>2202.42

768.44±17.89

S-3

459.80±7.59

>2130.85

377.81±2.41

553.52±7.92

>2130.85

504.74±8.99

S-4

476.15±6.06

>2123.60

439.73±10.04

650.85±8.10

>2123.60

662.96±2.65

S-5

131.23±2.18

525.62

124.42±6.99

322.77±4.24

2102.50

302.07±7.39

S-6

20.33±2.69

248.74

21.63±1.75

33.05±0.36

497.47

29.55±0.08

S-7

18.29±1.53

255.27

17.60±0.26

32.95±1.01

510.58

31.05±0.51

S-8

89.60±2.30

465.32

55.50±3.98

95.36±1.53

465.32

97.56±1.46

S-9

126.76±2.44

513.78

109.84±3.56

277.60±3.89

2055.14

269.09±3.37

S-10

53.07±2.02

244.72

41.30±1.79

70.69±1.79

489.45

72.36±1.18

S-11

89.79±0.97

500.92

78.69±2.22

142.64±2.19

500.92

131.83±1.26

S-12

11.36±0.68

65.06

8.24±0.15

17.71±1.24

130.12

16.34±1.08

S-13

120.82±3.27

2137.75

97.64±4.26

79.38±1.47

534.44

76.15±1.18

S-14

39.49±2.82

510.51

39.60±0.77

80.04±1.99

510.51

74.26±3.97

S-15

31.66±1.23

113.36

30.57±0.06

63.04±2.03

113.36

61.70±3.54

S-16

3.99±0.96

59.18

3.52±0.13

26.75±1.79

236.78

26.36±0.18

S-17

92.16±2.42

245.09

83.07±1.73

75.83±3.55

245.09

105.95±1.03

S-18

53.06±0.82

202.38

39.92±0.39

36.95±1.45

202.38

30.48±2.03

S-19

43.01±3.05

484.94

38.76±0.99

102.41±1.45

484.94

89.58±0.82

a

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Notes:

MIC50 indicates the minimum inhibitory concentration of the drug

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99.99% of the tested strains.

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c

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formation by 50% of the tested strains. All data show significant differences

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between treatments (p<0.05) and are expressed as mean ± SD (n=3).

MBC indicates the minimum concentration of drug required to kill more than

MBIC50 indicates the minimum concentration of drug required to inhibit biofilm

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Table 3. Statistical parameters of the CoMFA model Contribution(%)

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Model

q2

r2

S

F

Steric

electrostatic

COMFA

0.556

0.982

0.14

47.527

69.6

30.4

CoMFA, comparative molecular force analysis.

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Table 4. Binding energy of M1PDH with the sapogenin derivatives (mean ± SD,

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n=5, kcal/moL) Compound

-Cdocker

-Cdocker

Compound

-Cdocker

-Cdocker

energy

interaction energy

energy

interaction energy

sapogenin

-83.61±5.58a

37.48±3.34b

S-10

-100.18±1.42a

52.02±2.20b

S-1

-89.62±3.54a

39.1±3.67b

S-11

-99.42±5.65a

61.24±4.63b

S-2

-81.55±2.89a

35.3±2.58b

S-12

-114.37±4.13a

43.33±2.86b

S-3

-89.7±1.52a

36.9±1.76b

S-13

-87.37±2.18a

52.38±1.87b

S-4

-96.02±4.25a

49.04±4.70b

S-14

-91.39±1.38a

63.75±6.65b

S-5

-109.95±4.93a

50.85±4.13b

S-15

-90.66±2.03a

56.96±2.11b

S-6

-97.41-±4.37a

57.02±4.72b

S-16

-109.87±4.54a

51.98±2.67b

S-7

-115.55±8.95a

44.46±4.62b

S-17

-110.11±4.3a

43.77±2.31b

S-8

-100.66±3.76a

56.08±2.09b

S-18

-96.67±1.56a

46.15±1.33b

S-9

-107.85±4.12a

48.44±1.06b

S-19

-104.46±7.98a

57.91±3.81b

Amoxicillin

31.62±0.86

49.71±2.07b

Celastrol

-218.76±9.42a

19.46±8.40

536

a

537

p