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Carvacrol Enhances the Antimicrobial Potency of Berberine in Bacillus subtilis.

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The essential oil carvacrol from oregano displays a wide range of biological activities among which is found the inhibition of efflux pumps. Thus, using carvacrol, the current work undertook the… Click to show full abstract

The essential oil carvacrol from oregano displays a wide range of biological activities among which is found the inhibition of efflux pumps. Thus, using carvacrol, the current work undertook the effort to potentiate the antimicrobial activity of berberine, a natural product with limited antimicrobial efficacy due to its efflux. Following the selection of concentrations for the combinatorial treatments, guided by checkerboard microtiter plate assay and growth experiments, ethidium bromide accumulation assay was used to find that 25 μg mL-1 carvacrol displayed a weak efflux pump inhibitor character in Bacillus subtilis. Scanning electron microscopy images and cellular material leakage assays showed that carvacrol at this concentration neither altered the morphology nor the permeability of the membrane alone but when combined with 75 μg mL-1 berberine. Among the efflux pumps of different families found in B. subtilis, except for BmrA and Mdr, the increase in the expressional changes was striking, with Blt displaying ~ 4500-fold increase in expression under the combination treatment. Overall, the findings demonstrated that carvacrol potentiated the effect of berberine; however, not only multiple pumps but also different targets may be responsible for the observed activity.

Keywords: carvacrol enhances; enhances antimicrobial; carvacrol; bacillus subtilis; berberine

Journal Title: Current microbiology
Year Published: 2022

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