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Evaluation of antioxidant and cytotoxicity activities of polyphenol extracted from brown seaweed Sargassum tenerrimum biomass

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The polyphenol compound is extracted from Sargassum tenerrimum with various bioactivities including antibacterial and antioxidant activity and MTT assay for cell cytotoxicity. The total phenolic content was 69.12 ± 0.24%. The S. tenerrimum polyphenol was found to phytochemical constituent’s presence of flavonoids, saponins, tannins, phenolics, alkaloids and steroid. The antibacterial activity of polyphenol presented significant inhibition against ten human pathogen bacterial cultures such as Proteus mirabilis, Klebsiella oxytoca, Escherichia coli, Bacillus cereus, Streptococcus pyogenes, Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Vibrio cholerae, Salmonella typhi and Bacillus subtilis. The in vitro antioxidant activity and MTT assay revealed that the polyphenol has anticancer activity against HeLa cells. The polyphenol compound was characterized through HPLC.

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I would like to acknowledge the Department of Microbiology, Ayya Nadar Janaki Ammal College (Autonomous) Sivakasi 626 124, Tamil Nadu, for providing the facilities for carrying out this work successfully.

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  1. Department of Microbiology, Ayya Nadar Janaki Ammal College (Autonomous), Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu, India

    Shunmugiah Mahendran &  Senthurpandian Muthuramalinga Sethupathi

  2. PG and Research Department of Botany, Saraswathi Narayanan College, Madurai-22, Tamil Nadu, Perungudi, India

    Subbiah Sankaralingam,  Durairaj Kathiresan &  Mahalingam Muthumani

  3. Department of Botany, Nirmala College for Women, Red Fields, Coimbatore, 641018, Tamil Nadu, India

    Loganathan Kousalya

  4. PG and Research Department of Microbiology, V. H. N. Senthikumara Nadar College, Virudhunagar, Tamil Nadu, India

    Selvam Palpperumal &  Balasundaram Harinathan

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Shunmugiah Mahendran, Subbiah Sankaralingam, Senthurpandian Muthuramalinga Sethupathi et al. Evaluation of antioxidant and cytotoxicity activities of polyphenol extracted from brown seaweed Sargassum tenerrimum biomass. Biomass Conv. Bioref. 14, 2063–2069 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13399-022-02301-x

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