HPLC Analysis and Skin Whitening Effects of Umbelliprenin-containing Extracts of Anethum Graveolens, Pimpinella Anisum, and Ferulago Campestris

Vito Taddeo 1 Francesco Epifano 1, * Francesca Preziuso 1 Serena Fiorito 1 Nicolas Caron 2 Arnaud Rives 2 Philippe de Medina 3 Marc Poirot 3 Sandrine Silvente-Poirot 3, * Salvatore Genovese 1
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1 Dipartimento di Scienze del Farmaco
2 Société de Biotechnologie médicale - Affichem S.A. [Toulouse, France]
3 CRCT - Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Toulouse
Abstract : Umbelliprenin has recently been shown to have great potential as a skin whitening agent. Wishing to investigate the same effect in plant species known to biosynthesize this coumarin, three plants belonging to the Apiaceae family, namely Anethum graveolens L. (dill), Pimpinella anisum L. (anise), and Ferulago campestris (Besser) Grecescu (field ferula) were screened by HPLC analysis for their respective content of umbelliprenin in extracts obtained with different solvent mixtures and by maceration and ultrasound-assisted processes. EtOH was shown to be the best solvent, providing umbelliprenin yields ranging from 1.7% to 14.4% (with respect to the total amount of extract obtained). Extracts with the highest content of this farnesyloxycoumarin were then assayed as modulators of melanogenesis in cultured murine Melan A cells employing the same umbelliprenin obtained by chemical synthesis as the reference. A parallelism between the content of the coumarin and the recorded depigmenting effect (60% for the EtOH extract of F. campestris as the best value) was revealed for all plants extracts when applied at a dose of 100 μg/mL. Our results demonstrate that the same potential of umbelliprenin can be ascribed also to umbelliprenin-enriched plant extracts which reinforces enforce the widespread use of phyto-preparations for cosmetic purposes (e.g., A. graveolens).
Keywords : umbelliprenin. anise apiaceae dill field ferula melanin melanogenesis oxyprenylated coumarins skin whitening effect
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Vito Taddeo, Francesco Epifano, Francesca Preziuso, Serena Fiorito, Nicolas Caron, et al.. HPLC Analysis and Skin Whitening Effects of Umbelliprenin-containing Extracts of Anethum Graveolens, Pimpinella Anisum, and Ferulago Campestris. Molecules, MDPI, 2019, 24 (3), pp.501. ⟨10.3390/molecules24030501⟩. ⟨inserm-02380544⟩

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