Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
Volume 22, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms22073543
Keywords
seed storage proteins; peptides; anti-inflammatory; antioxidant; trypsin inhibitors; quinoa; amaranth; buckwheat; in vitro gastro-intestinal digestion
Funding
- Universita degli Studi di Milano (Assegno di Ricerca tipo A) [2018-RPDF-0048]
- University of Milan
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The study investigated the potential effects of pseudocereal proteins and their peptides on chronic inflammation and oxidative stress, showing that these proteins mainly express immune-modulating and antioxidant activities after hydrolysis, while intact globulins exhibited higher trypsin inhibitor activity. This lays the foundation for utilizing pseudocereal seeds as a source of anti-inflammatory molecules.
Food proteins and peptides are able to exert a variety of well-known bioactivities, some of which are related to well-being and disease prevention in humans and animals. Currently, an active trend in research focuses on chronic inflammation and oxidative stress, delineating their major pathogenetic role in age-related diseases and in some forms of cancer. The present study aims to investigate the potential effects of pseudocereal proteins and their derived peptides on chronic inflammation and oxidative stress. After purification and attribution to protein classes according to classic Osborne's classification, the immune-modulating, antioxidant, and trypsin inhibitor activities of proteins from quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.), amaranth (Amaranthus retroflexus L.), and buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum Moench) seeds have been assessed in vitro. The peptides generated by simulated gastro-intestinal digestion of each fraction have been also investigated for the selected bioactivities. None of the proteins or peptides elicited inflammation in Caco-2 cells; furthermore, all protein fractions showed different degrees of protection of cells from IL-1 beta-induced inflammation. Immune-modulating and antioxidant activities were, in general, higher for the albumin fraction. Overall, seed proteins can express these bioactivities mainly after hydrolysis. On the contrary, higher trypsin inhibitor activity was expressed by globulins in their intact form. These findings lay the foundations for the exploitation of these pseudocereal seeds as source of anti-inflammatory molecules.
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