Determination of essential oil and biological activities of Poulter and L. species collected from different localities: is an alternative to multifunctional species ST JOHN'S WORT ()?

The importance of L. species, being used in traditional medicine, in the scientific world is increasing day by day. species are plants that have been used in the treatment of many diseases for a long time and have healing properties. In the current study, the essential oil compositions of L. and Poulter collected from different localities in Turkey were determined by GC-MS/FID. In addition, their antioxidant, cytotoxic, and antimicrobial activities with their enzyme inhibitory potentials (cholinesterase, urease, tyrosinase, elastase, and collagenase) were investigated. Also, in vitro and in silico studies of the major components of the species have been carried out on the studied enzymes. It was determined that four samples mainly contained α-pinene (55.99%-62.80%) while three samples contained 2-methyloctane (9.45%-22.39%) and α-pinene (12.75%-33.08%). While essential oils possessed significant biological activity potential except for the antimicrobial activity, samples did not. All essential oil samples of exhibited a high cytotoxic effect (IC 21.67 ± 0.34 to 34.67 ± 0.45 μg/mL) against colon cancer cell line (HT-29) and indicated higher acetyl-(Inhibiton% 83.30 ± 1.90 to 93.08 ± 1.04) and butyryl-cholinesterase (Inhibiton% 80.58 ± 1.19 to 93.28 ± 1.99) inhibitory activity than the standard compound, galantamine. Furthermore, all samples of showed high tyrosinase (Inhibiton% 69.00 ± 1.64 to 95.25 ± 1.42) and elastase (Inhibiton% 27.58 ± 0.34 to 36.69 ± 0.18) inhibitory effects. These biological activity results indicated that essential oil could be used in the cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries.