Antioxidant activity and luteolin content of Marchantia polymorpha L.

Authors

ALPER GÖKBULUT
BASRİ SATILMIŞ
KADİR BATÇIOĞLU
BARBAROS ÇETİN
ENGİN ŞARER

DOI

10.3906/biy-1106-15

Abstract

Antioxidant activity of the methanol and ethyl acetate extracts of Marchantia polymorpha L., which grows naturally in Turkey, was tested by DPPH and ABTS methods. According to the applied methods, both extracts exhibited moderate activity. Some phenolic compounds that could be responsible for the activity were investigated by RP-HPLC, qualitatively and quantitatively, in the methanolic extract of liverwort. While caffeic acid, chlorogenic acid, rutin, myricetin, quercetin, and kaempferol were not found in the extract, luteolin as the liable antioxidant agent was determined as 0.0052 ± 0.0002% among the investigated compounds.

Keywords

Marchantia, antioxidant activity, RP-HPLC, phenolic compounds, luteolin

First Page

381

Last Page

385

Recommended Citation

GÖKBULUT, ALPER; SATILMIŞ, BASRİ; BATÇIOĞLU, KADİR; ÇETİN, BARBAROS; and ŞARER, ENGİN (2012) "Antioxidant activity and luteolin content of Marchantia polymorpha L.," Turkish Journal of Biology: Vol. 36: No. 4, Article 2. https://doi.org/10.3906/biy-1106-15
Available at: https://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/biology/vol36/iss4/2