Paper Title :Activity of Nicotine against the Bacterial Growth

Author :Divyansha Mishra, Sandhya, Sahu, Arpita Mukherjee, Akanksha Rai

Article Citation :Divyansha Mishra ,Sandhya ,Sahu ,Arpita Mukherjee ,Akanksha Rai , (2018 ) " Activity of Nicotine against the Bacterial Growth " , International Journal of Advances in Science, Engineering and Technology(IJASEAT) , pp. 100-101, Volume-6, Issue-4

Abstract : Tobacco comes under the solenaceae family. It contains alkaloid nicotine.Leaves were be used for preparing tobacco. Tobacco is the genus of herbs Nicotiana.The addictive nature of tobacco is due to the compound nicotine.It is mainly found indigenously to North and South America, Australia, South Africa and the North pacific.Tobacco contains as much higher concentration of nicotine than the others.Taking tobacco in our society is very common since decades. The higher concentration of tobacco may be inhibiting the growth of bacterial cells. Tobacco (Nicotiana tobaccum) is a chemical mutagen (Benzopyerene is found in tobacco) that change the sequence of bases in a DNA and add hydrocarbon groups to various nucleotide that causing improper base pairing during DNA replication that effects growth of bacteria. Increasing the concentration of tobacco (nicotine) will inhibit the bacterial growth.Hence the data further confirms that the nicotine is responsible for the inhibition of bacterial growth. Keywords - Nicotine, Benzopyerene, Hydrocarbons, Nucleotide, Compounds, Chemical Mutagen.

Type : Research paper

Published : Volume-6, Issue-4

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