Shogaols from Zingiber officinale as promising antifouling agents.
We isolated the highly potent attachment-inhibitors (three times more active than standard CuSO4 in the blue mussel assay), trans-6-, 8-, and 10-shogaols, from a hexane extract of the roots of ginger, Zingiber officinale Roscoe. Trans-8-shogaol showed the highest antifouling activity comparable with that of tributyltin fluoride (TBTF), which is recognized as one of the most effective antifouling agents, in the conventional submerged assay.
D000818:Animals; D049872:Bivalvia / Q000187:drug effects; D002396:Catechols / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000494:pharmacology*; D002850:Chromatography, Gel; D020939:Zingiber officinale / Q000737:chemistry*; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D010936:Plant Extracts / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000494:pharmacology
D002396:Catechols; D010936:Plant Extracts; C040115:shogaol