Research Article
Antioxidant and Cytotoxic Activity of a New Ferruginan A from
Olea ferruginea: In Vitro and In Silico Studies
Zafar Ali Shah,
1
Adil A. H. Mujawah ,
2
Irfan Ullah,
1
Abdur Rauf ,
1
Umer Rashid ,
3
Anees Ahmed Khalil ,
4
Syed Muhammad Mukarram Shah,
5
Aini Pervaiz,
5
Farzana Shaheen,
6
Yahya S. Al-Awthan ,
7,8
Muhammad Nasimullah Qureshi,
1
Mohammed A. Al-Duais ,
9,10
Omar Bahattab ,
7
Zainab M. Almarhoon ,
11
Yahia N. Mabkhot ,
12
and Mohammad S. Mubarak
13
1
Department of Chemistry, University of Swabi, Swabi, 23561 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
2
Department of Chemistry, College of Science and Arts, Qassim University, Ar Rass 51921, Saudi Arabia
3
Department of Chemistry, COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus, 22060 Abbottabad, Pakistan
4
University Institute of Diet and Nutritional Sciences, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, The University of Lahore, Pakistan
5
Department of Pharmacy, University of Swabi, Swabi, 23561 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
6
H.E.J. Research Institute of Chemistry, International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences, University of Karachi,
Kararchi 75270, Pakistan
7
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Tabuk, Tabuk, Saudi Arabia
8
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Ibb University, Ibb, Yemen
9
Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Tabuk, Tabuk, Saudi Arabia
10
Biochemistry Unit, Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Ibb University, Ibb, Yemen
11
Department of Chemistry, College of Science, King Saud University, P.O. Box 2455, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia
12
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia
13
Department of Chemistry, The University of Jordan, Amman 11942, Jordan
Correspondence should be addressed to Abdur Rauf; mashaljcs@yahoo.com
Received 2 November 2021; Accepted 15 December 2021; Published 20 January 2022
Academic Editor: Elena Azzini
Copyright © 2022 Zafar Ali Shah et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License,
which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Studies of the ethyl acetate extract bark extract of Olea ferruginea led to the isolation of one new compound Ferruginan A (1) in
addition to two known compounds, Ferruginan (2) and cycloolivil (3). Structures of the isolated compounds were confirmed by
mass spectrometry (MS) and NMR spectral data. The ethyl acetate fraction and compounds (1–3) were evaluated against breast
cancer cell line (MCF-7) and as antioxidants using the free radical scavenging assay. Results revealed that compound 2 exhibits
significant antioxidant activity with an IC
50
value of 21.74 μg/mL. In addition, the ethyl acetate fraction showed good cytotoxic
activity (79.31% inhibition at 250 μg/mL), whereas compounds 1–3 exerted mild cytotoxic activity (IC
50
=8:03 – 12:01 μg/mL)
as compared to the standard (IC
50
=4:41 μg/mL) against MCF-7. Docking studies suggested that antioxidant activity is due to
the chelation of compounds with copper present in the active site of tyrosinase. These results suggest that the extract exhibits
considerable antioxidant activity, and the isolated compounds exert moderate anticancer activity.
1. Introduction
Natural products obtained from terrestrial and marine
plants have been used as a source of traditional medicines
since ancient times. According to the World Health Organi-
zation (WHO), people of developing countries rely on natu-
ral products for their health care. In the last century, natural
products such as Taxol, docetaxel, morphine, cyclosporin A,
quinine, simvastain, and lovastatin, among others, have been
successfully marketed as safe drugs for the treatment of
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Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity
Volume 2022, Article ID 8519250, 7 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/8519250