Radical-scavenging activity of penicillin G, ampicillin, oxacillin, and dicloxacillin

Autor: Hassan Y. Aboul-Enein, Irena Kruk, Paweł Berczyński, Aleksandra Kładna
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Luminescence. 32:434-442
ISSN: 1522-7235
DOI: 10.1002/bio.3199
Popis: The aim of this study was to characterize the antioxidant activity of penicillin G (PG), ampicillin (AMP), oxacillin (OX) and dicloxacillin (DOX) through their reactivity towards reactive oxygen species (superoxide anion radical, O2•; hydroxyl radical, HO• ; peroxyl radical, ROO• ; hydrogen peroxide, H2 O2 ; DPPH• ) using various in vitro antioxidant assays with chemiluminescence (CL) and spectrophotometry as measurement techniques. In hydroxyl radical assays , PG, OX and AMP were found to inhibit the CL signal arising from the Fenton-like reaction in a dose-dependent manner with IC50 = 0.480 ± 0.020 mM, IC50 = 0.569 ± 0.021 mM, and IC50 = 0.630 ± 0.019 mM, respectively. The highest reactivity of PG among the tested penicillins towards the HO radical was confirmed in the deoxyribose degradation assay. In the ABAP-derived ROO radical assay, the radical-scavenging ability of the test penicillins was in the following order: AMP > PG > DOX > OX. The number of reduced DPPH radicals by the drugs tested was
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