Biotransformation of cholesterol to diosgenin by freely suspended and immobilised cells of Dioscorea bulbifera L. |
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Authors: | G. Jyothishwaran Y. N. Seetharam |
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Affiliation: | a Department of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, Indiab Biosystematics and Medicinal Plants Laboratory, Department of Post-Graduate Studies and Research in Botany, Gulbarga University, Gulbarga, Karnataka, India |
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Abstract: | The cell suspension cultures, established from the friable callus which was risen from the nodal segments of Dioscorea bulbifera L. in Murashige-Skoog (MS) medium supplemented with indole-3-butryic acid (20 mg L- 1), was examined for cell growth in MS medium fed with cholesterol (50 mg L- 1 and 100 mg L- 1) after 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, and 18 days of culture. The growth index of the cell suspension culture on the 8th day was 1.2 and gradually inclined to 1.9 on the 16th day and remained the same at the 18th day. There is no marked difference in the cell growth of cholesterol-treated and control cell suspension culture. The maximum accumulation of diosgenin was noticed on the 14th day in control and cholesterol-treated cell suspension culture and immobilised cell cultures. The highest concentration of diosgenin, 2.94% and 2.14% dry weight, was obtained in immobilised cell culture and cell suspension culture treated with 100 mg L- 1 cholesterol, respectively. |
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Keywords: | Biotransformation Cholesterol Dioscorea bulbifera Diosgenin Growth index Immobilisation |
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