Jayanthi Bhima and Jeyaraj M.
Abstract
Seaweeds as a sustainable resource possess numerous secondary metabolites and are of great importance to researchers in the field of pharmacology as most pharmaceutical industries depend on algae for their raw materials. Turbinaria ornata belongs to the family Sargassaceae and is a brown alga. In recent years, Gas chromatography-Mass spectrometry (GC-MS) has emerged as a decisive analytical tool in natural products research which enables the precise identification of different type of bioactive therapeutic compounds in natural extracts. Advanced GC-MS sensitivity associated with augmented spectral libraries and chemometric approaches have further expanded its application in new drug discovery and phytochemical profiling. The present study was carried out to identify the possible bioactive components present in the ethanolic extract of Turbinaria ornate using GC-MS. The GC-MS analysis revealed the existence of thirty bioactive compounds which include Tetra decanoic acid, n-Hexadecanoid acid, Nonadecanoic acid, Octadecanoic acid, Cis-10-Nanodecenoic acid, L-(+)-Ascorbic acid, 2,6-Dihecadecanoic acid, Oleic acid, 3 Hydroxypropyl ester, 9,12-Octadecadienoic acid and 9,12-Octadecadienoyl chloride. The phytochemical and GC-MS profiling of Ethanolic extract of Turbinaria ornate divulged the presence of bioactive compounds with important medicinal properties. The identified compounds were likely to profuse numerous biological activities such as antioxidant, hypocholesterolemic, anti-inflammatory, antidiabetic, hepatoprotective, antieczemic, antiacne, antiarthritic, anticoronary and anticancer. Hence, the existence of these phytochemicals could be superintended for the therapeutic effects of algae.