Antioxidant Properties and Glucan Compositions of Various Crude Extract from Lentinus squarrosulus Mycelial Culture

Abstract

Various crude extracts of Lentinus squarrosulus mushroom mycelium and culture broth were prepared for antioxidant studies, glucan and carbohydrate compound analysis. Crude extract from ethanol, cold and hot water extraction was tested on several complementary test systems namely DPPH free radical scavenging, β-carotene linoleic acid oxidation, total phenolic compound, total flavonoid compound, total carbohydrate content and total glucan compositions. The antioxidant activity of the crude extracts of Lentinus squarrosulus mushroom mycelium and culture broth was determined by 2,2’ diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) radical scavenging method and β-carotene linoleic acid assay. Crude extracted from culture broth EPS EE recorded the highest radical scavenging effects at 20 mg/mL (85%) which is closer to the control antioxidants (ascorbic acid 97%; BHT 92.4%; BHA 93.6%). Both the ethanol extract (IPS EE and EPS EE) exhibited the highest β-carotene linoleic acid oxidation by recording IC50 values of 0.6 and 0.65 mg/mL respectively. IPS EE (0.59 mg/g) and EPS WE (0.58 mg/g) showed high flavonoid content whereas total phenol content was high in EPS WE (0.85 mg/g) and IPS EE (0.84 mg/g). Total carbohydrate concentrations were high in IPS HWE and IPS CWE with 19.1 and 16.3 mg/mL respectively and these data correlate with the β-glucan content in both extracts. The highest β-glucan content found in IPS CWE and IPS HWE were 12.2 and 11.4% w/w respectively.

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Ahmad, R. , Muniandy, S. , Abdullah Shukri, N. , Usyida Alias, S. , Hamid, A. , Wan Yusoff, W. , Senafi, S. and Daud, F. (2014) Antioxidant Properties and Glucan Compositions of Various Crude Extract from Lentinus squarrosulus Mycelial Culture. Advances in Bioscience and Biotechnology, 5, 805-814. doi: 10.4236/abb.2014.510094.

1. Introduction

Lentinus squarrosulus is an edible mushroom commonly found in the wild and has not been cultivated on large scale for the production of fruit bodies. The tough fruit body is rich in proteins, sugars, lipid, amino acids, vita- min B, C, and D, and minerals [1] . Liquid fermentation of Lentinus squarrosulus mushroom produces high amounts of uniform mycelia biomass in the culture broth which was found as source of polysaccharide [2] . Pre- vious research reported that batch cultures using Pleurotus ferulae, Pleurotus nebrodensis, and Agrocybe aegerita effectively produced polysaccharides and mycelia growth from liquid cultures [3] - [7] . It is also reported that Auricularia auricular judae, Pleurotus squarrosulus and Russula sp. contain appreciable amounts of alkaloids, phenols, saponins and flavonoids [8] .

In many living organisms, oxidation is essential for the production of energy to accelerate biological processes. However, when the mechanism of oxidation becomes unbalanced by factors such as aging, deterioration of phy- siological functions may occur resulting in diseases such as cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, and atherosclerosis [9] . Thus, maintenance of equilibrium between free radical production and antioxidant defenses (enzymatic and non- enzymatic) is an essential condition for normal organism functioning. Antioxidant supplements or foods con- taining antioxidants may be used to help the human body reduce oxidative damage [10] . Antioxidants are com- pounds that can delay or inhibit the mechanism of oxidation by blocking the initiation or propagation of oxidiz- ing chain reactions. Several commercial synthetic antioxidants are widely used in food industry such as butyla- tedhyroxyanisole (BHA), butylatedhydroxytoluene (BHT), andtert-butylhydroquinone (TBHQ) [11] . However, the utilization of these synthetic antioxidants becomes restricted due to their toxicity and carcinogenicity effects to the liver. Therefore, it is necessary to investigate and produce more effective natural antioxidants that are less harmful to human body.

In searching for new therapeutics alternatives, many kinds of mushrooms particularly higher Basidiomycetes have been studied extensively and have found variable therapeutic activities such as anticarcinogenic, anti-inflam- matory, immuno-suppresor, antibiotic [12] [13] and anticancer [14] . These therapeutic activities are contributed by the antioxidants that are present in the foods. The antioxidant is defined as a substance in food that when present at low concentrations, it could significantly decrease or prevent the adverse effects of reactive species, such as reactive oxygen and nitrogen species (ROS/RNS), on normal physiological function in humans [8] .

In previous research, water extraction of Lentinus squarrosulus mycelium homogenized with mycelia broth was tested on the free radical scavenging activity of DPPH and results showed that the extract exhibited more than 50% of inhibition [15] . To the best of our knowledge, no research has been conducted on antioxidant activi- ties of various crude extracts from mycelium and culture broth of Lentinus squarrosulus in literature. Therefore, this study will evaluate more details on the antioxidant capacity from various types of extractions and glucan con- tent as a valuable compound for anticancer treatment. As far as it is concerned, this is the first data demonstrated the glucan composition particularly α and β glucan from Lentinus squarrosulus cultured mycelium and cultured broth.

2. Materials and method

2.1. Mushroom mycelia

Mushroom mycelia of Lentinus squarrosulus were maintained on potato dextrose agar (PDA) slant (30 g/L) added with 2% yeast extract, stored at 4˚C for long term use. The mycelium from stock culture was placed in the center on PDA plate and incubated for 7 days prior to submerged liquid fermentation.

2.2. Chemicals

Linoleic acid, b-carotene, 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH), butylatedhydroxytoluene (BHT), buthylated- hydroxyanisol (BHA), Tween 40, Folin-Ciocalteau’s phenol reagent (FCR), sodium carbonate, and aluminum nitrate were purchased from Sigma-Aldrich. All other unlabeled chemicals and reagents were analytical grade.

2.3. Submerged liquid fermentation

Submerged liquid fermentation was carried out for production of mycelium using optimized culture conditions (sucrose concentration 114.61 g/L, yeast extract 1.62 g/L and initial pH of 5.81) as described by [2] . A 5 mm plug of Lentinus sq. mycelia was removed with a cork borer from 7 day-old-culture. The mycelia cut (10 plugs) was transferred into liquid medium, incubated in orbital shaker for 7 days at 28˚C, 150 rpm for mycelia growth. Cultured mycelia were then dried using oven until constant weight. Dried mycelia were used for intracellular polysaccharide (IPS) extraction using ethanol, cold water and hot water method. Culture filtrates were used for extracellular polysaccharide (EPS) extraction using ethanol and water extraction method. EPS water extract were prepared by directly subjecting the culture filtrate to freeze-dryer yielding the exopolysaccharide water ex- tract (EPS WE).

2.4. Extraction of polysaccharide

2.4.1. Ethanol extraction

Ethanol extraction was conducted according to the method used by [16] . Culture filtrates were mixed with 4 times of absolute ethanol, stirred vigorously and kept overnight at 4˚C. Ethanol was removed using rotary eva- porator and crude extracts were dried using freeze dryer yielding the extracellular polysaccharide ethanol ex- tracts (EPS EE). For intracellular polysaccharide ethanol extracts (IPS EE), a modified hot water extraction as described by [17] was used. Briefly, the powders of dried mycelia (40 g) were extracted twice with distilled wa- ter (600 mL) at 100˚C for 3 h in a water bath. The extracts were cooled, filtered using filter paper (Whatman No 1) and precipitated using ethanol before dried using freeze dryer.

2.4.2. Cold water extraction

Approximately 5 g of mycelia powder were mixed with 500 mL of distilled water and stirred vigorously for 3 h at room temperature. The extracts were filtered using Whatman No. 1 and the culture filtrates were freeze dried for intracellular polysaccharides cold water extracts (IPS CWE).

2.4.3. Hot water extraction

Intracellular polysaccharide hot water extracts (IPS HWE) were extracted using the method as described by [17] . Briefly, 40 g of dried mycelia powder was extracted twice with distilled water (600 mL) at 100˚C for 3 h in wa- ter bath. The extracts were cooled, filtered and the filtrates were dried using freeze dryer.

2.5. Antioxidant test

2.5.1. DPPH assay

This spectrophotometric assay uses the stable radical DPPH reagent [18] [19] . In this assay the ability of the hy- drogen or electron donation of the extracts were measured from the bleaching of the purple color methanol solu- tion of DPPH. Different concentrations of the crude extract (1 mL) in distilled water were added to 4 mL of 0.004% methanol solution of DPPH. The mixtures were incubated at room temperature, in the dark for 30 min before read the absorbance against a blank at 517 nm. Inhibition of free radical by DPPH in percent (I%) was calculated in following way:

where Ablank is the absorbance of the control reaction (containing all reagents except the test compound), and Asample is the absorbance of the test compound. The value of 50% inhibition (IC50) was calculated from the graph plotted inhibition percentage against extract concentrations. Tests were carried out in triplicate.

2.5.2. β-Carotene linoleic acid assay

b-carotene linoleic acidassay was conducted according to the method of [20] and [21] . A stock solution of b-carotene-linoleic acid mixture was prepared as follows: 0.5 mg b-carotene was dissolved in 1 mL of chloro- form (HPLC grade) and 25 mL linoleic acid and 200 mg Tween 40 were added. Chloroform was completely re- moved using a vacuum evaporator and 100 mL of distilled water was added and vigorously shaking. Then, 4 mL of the reaction mixture was dispensed into test tubes and 200 mL portions of the extracts (prepared at 2 mg/mL) were added and the emulsion system was incubated for 2 h at 50˚C. As soon as the emulsion was added to each tube, the zero time absorbance at 490 nm was measured. Lipid peroxidation inhibition was calculated using the following equation: (b-carotene content after 2 h of assay)/(initial b-carotene content) × 100. The same proce- dure was repeated with synthetic antioxidants, which are BHA and BHT as positive control. Antioxidative ca- pacities of the extracts were compared with those of BHA, BHT, and blank. Tests were carried out in triplicate.

2.6. Determination of antioxidant and anticancer Aompound

2.6.1. Total phenolic compound

Total soluble phenolic in the various crude extracts were determined with Folin-Ciocalteau’s phenol reagent (FCR) according to the method of [22] and [23] . Briefly, 1 mL of extract solution (2 g/L) was added with 46 mL of distilled water and 1 mL of Folin-Ciocalteau’s phenol reagent and the content of the flask were mixed tho- roughly. After 3 min, 3 mL of Na2CO3 (2%) was added and the mixture was allowed to stand for reading absor- bance at 760 nm. Gallic acid (0.05 - 0.8 mM) was used as a standard, and the results were expressed as mg of Gallic acid equivalents per gram of extract.

2.6.2. Total flavanoid compound

Total flavonoid compound in the various crude extracts were determined according to the method of [24] . Briefly, 1 mL sample from various extracts solution (2 mg/mL) were diluted with 4.3 mL of 80% aqueous etha- nol. The mixtures were then added with 0.1 mL of 10% aluminium nitrate and 0.1 mL aqueous potassium ace- tate (1M). The mixtures were incubated at room temperature for 40 min before read the absorbance using spec- trophotometer at 415 nm. Total flavonoid compound was calculated using Quercetin as a standard and the data was depicted as mg of Quercetin equivalents per gram of extracts.

2.6.3. Total carbohydrate concentration

Carbohydrate concentrations of various crude extracts were detected according to the slightly modified method of phenol-sulfuric acid assay by [25] . The crude extracts were suspended in distilled water (1 mg/mL) and 1 mL of sample solution were slowly mixed with 2.5 mL of H2SO4 (96% - 97%) and 0.5 mL phenol reagent. The mixtures were then left at room temperature for 5 - 10 min before read the absorbance at 490 nm. D-glucose was used as a standard.

2.6.4. Total glucan, α-glucan and β-glucan content

The contents of total glucan and a-glucans were determined in the polysaccharide extracts using the Mushroom and Yeast b-glucan Assay Procedure (Megazyme Int.). The enzyme kit, contains exo 1,3-b-glucanase, b-gluco- sidase, amiloglucosidase, invertase, glucose determination reagent (GOPOD-glucose oxidase, peroxidase, 4-ami- noantipyrine) and glucose standard solution. Briefly, the total glucan content polysaccharide samples were hy- drolyzed with ice-cold 60% sulfuric acid (v/v) for 1 h and for 2 h at 100˚C. After neutralization, hydrolysis to glucose was carried out using a mixture of exo-b-(1®3)-D-glucanase plus b-glucosidase in sodium acetate buffer at pH 4.5 for 1 h at 40˚C. Total glucan content was measured after GOPOD reagentwas added and absor- bance of all solutions was analyzed spectrophotometrically at 510 nm. a-glucan contents were measured upon enzymatic hydrolysis with amyloglucosidase plus invertase. The b-glucan content was calculated by substract- ing the a-glucan from the total glucan content. All values of glucan contents were expressedas g/100g of a dry weight (DW) of the extracts.

3. Results and discussion

3.1. DPPH radical scavenging

DPPH is a form of a stable free radical in aqueous or methanol solutions. In chemical reaction, DPPH will ac- cept an electron or hydrogen radical to become a stable diamagnetic molecule. DPPH is usually used as a sub- strate to evaluate the activity of antioxidants. The reaction was examined by the capacity to decrease the absor- bance at 517 nm of DPPH solution. The free radical DPPH may gain an electron of hydrogen radical to get sta- ble [26] and when antioxidants from the crude extracts donate protons to these radical, the absorption is taken as a measure of the extent of radical scavenging.

Crude extracts from mycelia (EPS EE, IPS CWE, IPS HWE and IPS EE) and from culture filtrate (EPS WE) showed similar pattern of scavenging effect with synthetic antioxidants such as BHA, BHT and ascorbic acid. The percentage of scavenging effect increase as the concentration of crude extract increased. Out of five differ- ent types of crude extracts, only EPS EE and EPS WE showed scavenging percentage more than 50%. All the crude extracts revealed scavenging activity in the order of EPS EE > EPS WE > IPS CWE > IPS HWE > IPS EE as shown in Figure 1. EPS EE showed the highest radical scavenging effects (86% at 20 mg/mL) followed by EPS WE with 60.9% of scavenging at 20 mg/mL. All crude extracts from mycelium however, revealed low radi- cal scavenging effects. The lowest radical-scavenging effects are from IPS EE which only achieved 20% of scavenging.

The lowest IC50 value was found in EPS WE with the effective concentration of 0.87 mg/mL as shown in Figure 2. It was reported that several commercial mushroom revealed scavenging effects on DPPH were mod- erate to high percentage which were within 42.9% - 81.8% at 6.4 mg/mL [27] . The free radical scavenging ac- tivity of Lepistanuda (Bull) Cooke ethanol extracts showed the highest scavenging percentage with the IC50 212 μg/mL [28] . Choi et al., [29] had also reported that Fomitopsis pinicola mushroom demonstrated the increased of DPPH scavenging rate from 50.3% to 88.2% when the F. pinicola extract concentration was increased from 60 to 120 μg/mL. The lowest scavenging effects of intracellular polysaccharide (IPS HWE, IPS EE and IPS CWE) indicated that these extracts were not effective in scavenging DPPH radicals.

3.2. β-carotene linoleic acid assay

In this assay, antioxidant capacity was determined by measuring the inhibition of the conjugate dienehydrope- roxides arising from linoleic acid oxidation [21] . Antioxidant compounds presence in the crude extracts will enables the neutralization of peroxide compounds, which are linoleic acid oxidation products. Consequently, col- our of β-carotene is preserved. The higher absorbance of the samples showed the higher oxidant activity [21] . A β-carotene-linoleic acid oxidation was compared with those of Lentinus squarrosulus crude extracts and BHA and BHT.

It was found that inhibition values of EPS EE, IPS EE, EPS WE and IPS HWE increased above 50% as the concentration of crude extracts increased up to 20 mg/mL. Only IPS CWE did not reach 50% inhibition (Figure 3). The highest β-carotene-linoleic acid oxidation obtained from ethanol extract (IPS EE and EPS EE) with IC50 values of 0.6 mg/mL and 0.65 mg/mL respectively. Crude extract of EPS WE showed IC50 of 1.44 mg/mL fol- lowed by IPS HWE with IC50 value of 5.2 mg/mL as shown in Figure 4. The studied of sample from L. edodes mushroom methanol extract showed β-carotene-linoleic acid inhibition 50% at 3.92 mg/mL [30] .

3.3. Determination of phenolic and flavonoid compound

Mushrooms are recognized as one of the important source of biologically active compounds. A variety of sec- ondary metabolites namely phenolic, polyketides, terpenes and steroids are usually accumulated in mushroom and possess a medicinal effects and functional values [31] . Mushrooms that has high phenolic compound are normally well correlated with the antioxidant activity [32] . Table 1 summarizes the total phenolic content ob- tained from different types of crude extracts of Lentinus squarrosulus. The total phenolic was determined in- comparison with standard Gallic acid and the results were expressed in terms of mg Gallic acid/g crude extract. Total phenolic content of these crude extracts were in the range of 0.68 to 0.85 mg/g. EPS WE and IPS EE exhi-

Figure 1. Free radical scavenging effects of the crude extracts measured in DPPH assay.

Figure 2. IC50 values of crude extracts measured in DPPH assay.

Figure 3. Inhibition of β-carotene-linoleic acid oxidation of various crude extract.

Figure 4. IC50 values of crude extracts measured in β-carotene-linoleic acid assay.

bited the highest content of phenolic with 0.85 and 0.84 mg/g respectively. Total phenolic content found in EPS EE (0.82 ± 0.01) was considerably higher as compared to previous study of ethanolic extract from Lepistanuda mushroom which only showed 0.48 mg/g [28] . It was suggested that phenolic compound plays an important role in inhibitory effects on mutagenesis [33] , stabilizing lipid oxidation and closely associated with antioxidant ac- tivity [34] . It is also clearly indicated that EPS EE and EPS WE showing high scavenging percentage of DPPH, and it might be due to the high content of phenolic compound in both of these extracts. Previous research have revealed that the antioxidant activity are associated with the phenol content, probably due to the redox properties

Table 1. Total phenol and flavonoid compound in various crude extract.

which incorporate them as reducing agents, hydrogen donors and singlet oxygen quenchers [35] .

Flavanoids are also widely distributed group of plant phenolic compounds which have a very effective anti- oxidant activity. Total flavonoid content was calculated using quercetin as a standard and the results were ex- pressed as mg of quercetin equivalents per gram of extract. The total flavonoid content of water and ethanolic extracts varied considerable from 0.24 to 0.59 mg/g as listed in Table 1. It was showing that IPS EE which highly in total phenol contents also exhibited high total flavonoid content (0.59 mg/g) as compared to the others crude extract. This followed by EPS WE with 0.58 mg/g and the lowest flavonoid content was found in IPS CWE with 0.27 mg/g. The most common flavonoids present in mushroom in the group of phenolic acids are quercetin, catechin, epicatechin and rutin [36] .

3.4. Determination of carbohydrate and glucan content

The content of carbohydrate was determined from various crude extract of Lentinus sq. mushroom mycelia. In general, the content of carbohydrates was mainly high in IPS (IPS CWE, IPS HWE and IPS EE) as compared with EPS (EPS EE, EPS WE). Results exhibited that IPS HWE showed the highest carbohydrate content (19.1 mg/mL) followed by IPS CWE with 16.3 mg/mL (Figure 5). These results suggested that carbohydrate was found most in mycelium rather than in culture broth.

Experiment was further carried out to determine the total glucan, α-glucan and β-glucan from the several of crude extracts. Mushroom polysaccharides are present mostly as glucans and in general they are polysaccharides containing units of glucose in their backbone. Glucans consists with different types of glycosidic linkages, such as (1 → 3), (1 → 6)-β-glucans and (1 → 3)-α-glucans, but some are heteroglycans. There are also glucans that bind to protein residues and called as PSP complexes. β-glucan with β-(1 → 3) linkages in the main chain of the glucan and additional β-(1 → 6) branch points are most needed for tumor preventive agent [14] . In this sudy, glucans content particularly α-glucan and β-glucans were determined in various water crude extract and etha- nolic extract using Mushroom and Yeast b-glucan Assay Procedure Kit (Megazyme Int.). Total glucans obtained was in the range of 2.2 to 13.1 (%w/100mg sample) as shown in Figure 6. The highest glucans content was from intracellular water soluble extracts which are IPS HWE with 13.1 ± 0.3 (%w/w) and 12.3 ± 0.3 (%w/w) respectively. The extracellular polysaccharide EPS EE showed 10.4 ± 0.4 (%w/w) and EPS WE with 8.6 ± 0.1 (% w/w). These results indicated culture broth of submerged culture of Lentinus squarrosulus mycelium produced significant glucans content as compared to the mycelium extracts. β-glucan content was comparatively higher as compared to α-glucan content. As contras to total glucan content, β-glucan content was found highest in IPS CWE with 12.16 ± 0.68 (%w/w) followed by IPS HWE with 11.36 ± 0.27 (%w/w). Crude extract of IPS EE showed lowest total glucan as well as β-glucans with 2.2 ± 0.4 and 1.33 ± 0.38 (%w/w) respectively. The high- est total glucans and β-glucans content form mycelium extracts is in accordance to the previous research which suggested that the main source of antitumor polysaccharides appears to be fungal cell walls that consist of poly- saccharides [37] . Results obtained also indicated that crude water extracts from mycelium was potentially be- come antitumor bioactive compound regarding on the high β-glucan content.

4. Conclusion

In conclusion, the results of this study indicated that the extracellular crude extract (EPS) from culture broth has significant antioxidant activity in DPPH and β-carotene system. Nevertheless, β-glucan content was high in intracellular polysaccharide (IPS) from mycelium extract. Therefore EPS could be used as antioxidative agents while the IPS for tumor preventive agents in food industry and cancer treatment respectively.

Figure 5. Carbohydrate content from various crude extract.

Figure 6. Total glucan, α-glucan and β-glucan content from various crude ex- tract of Lentinus squarrosulus mushroom mycelium.

Acknowledgements

This work was performed with financial support from eScience fund grant (MOSTI), Project No: 02-01-02- SF0978.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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