Antifungal compounds of Chinese prickly ash against drug-resistant Candida albicans
2022
Dan-Yu Ma | Zhao-Jie Wang | Yi-Chi Chen | Zi-Heng Qi | Huan Wang | Yan-Yan Zhu | Xiao-Dong Luo
The leaf of Chinese prickly ash, a unique spice having typical pungent sensation, is a popular food in Southwest China with antipruritic, insecticidal and fungicidal functions, but its bioactive constituents of fungistatic capacity remain unknown. In present investigation, twenty-nine compounds were isolated from leaf of Chinese prickly ash, and their antifungal bioactivity against drug-resistant Candida albicans were evaluated in vitro and in vivo. As a result, three compounds 3, 10, 29 showed antifungal bioactivity by damage of the fungal biofilm, and they might recover sensitive of drug resistant C. albicans to Fluconazole. Then Chinese prickly ash leaf was proved to be a functional food against fungus for the first time in experiment.
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