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<Journal>
<Journal-Info>
<name>International Journal of Pharma and Bio Sciences</name>
<website>ijpbs.net</website>
<email>editorijpbs@rediffmail.com (or) editorofijpbs@yahoo.com (or) prasmol@rediffmail.com</email>
</Journal-Info>
<article>
<article-id pub-id-type='other'>10.22376/ijpbs.2019.10.1.p1-12</article-id>
<issue_number>Volume 6 Issue 4</issue_number>
<issue_period>2015 (October - December)</issue_period>
<title>SCREENING OF ANTI-BIOFILM, ANTI-QUORUM SENSING ACTIVITY FROM METHANOLIC EXTRACT OF Plectranthus amboinicus (Lour) </title>
<abstract>Quorum sensing (QS) is well known for bacterial cell to cell dependent mechanism and its stimulus response are correlated to population density. Quorum sensing inhibition can reduced the risk of microbial pathogenicity in all infection. In this study methanolic leaf extract of  lessThan i greaterThan Plectranthus amboinicus lessThan /i greaterThan  was assessed for its anti quorum sensing activity against Acyl Homoserine Lactone (AHL)-dependent virulence factor inhibition in all bacterial pathogens [ lessThan i greaterThan Serratia marcescens, lessThan /i greaterThan   lessThan i greaterThan Pseudomonas aeruginosa, lessThan /i greaterThan   lessThan i greaterThan Vibrio harveyi  lessThan /i greaterThan (MTCC 7771) lessThan i greaterThan , Hafnia alvei lessThan /i greaterThan  (MTCC 1426)] at the concentration of 50mg/ml. In addition the methanolic leaf extract  lessThan i greaterThan Plectrantus amboinicus lessThan /i greaterThan  showed no growth inhibitory effect on bacterial pathogens. The methanolic leaf extract of  lessThan i greaterThan Plectrantus amboinicus lessThan /i greaterThan  have also inhibited the rhamnolipid production in  lessThan i greaterThan Pseudomonas aeruginosa  lessThan /i greaterThan and controlled the swimming and swarming motility in  lessThan i greaterThan Serratia marcescens lessThan /i greaterThan . In  lessThan i greaterThan Vibrio harveyi lessThan /i greaterThan  (MTTC 7771) the bioluminescence was controlled by  lessThan i greaterThan Plectranthus amboinicus lessThan /i greaterThan  at the concentration of 50mg/ml. Hence it was envisaged that the methanolic leaf extract of  lessThan i greaterThan Plectrantus amboinicus  lessThan /i greaterThan could pave the way to prevent quorum sensing (QS) mediated bacterial infections.</abstract>
<authors>R. NANCY IMMACULATE MARY AND N. BANU</authors>
<keywords>Antiquorum sensing, Biofilm, Rhamnolipid, Motility, Bioluminescence </keywords>
<pages>1060-1068</pages>
</article>
</Journal>
