Kathleen Kay Buendia, Nana Kameda-Migita, Hideyuki Teruya, Kanji Hori, Makoto Hirayama
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Abstract
The physiological impacts of polysaccharides and lipids in seaweed on human health are becoming clearer, but the behavior of the protein components, especially lectins, after ingestion remains poorly understood. In this study, we examined the resistance of edible red algae-derived lectins to digestive enzymes. We found that a lectin extracted from Meristotheca papulosa (MPL-1), belonging to the Jacalin-related lectin family, was relatively stable when subjected to both peptic and tryptic digestion and retained its hemagglutination activity after 24 h of digestion. The activity of MPL-1 was also maintained without a large change for 24 h following exposure to enzymes such as papain, Actinase E, and proteinase K, suggesting that MPL-1 possesses a strong resistant property against proteolytic digestion. We examined the anti-proliferation activity of the MPL fraction from the algal body against HT-29, a human colon cancer-derived cell line, and found that it showed a strong inhibitory activity with a half-maximal inhibitory concentration of 4.5 μg/mL. This activity was nullified in the presence of yeast mannan, an inhibitory sugar compound of lectin, demonstrating that MPL expressed its activity through binding to the glycan moieties on HT-29. This study indicates that this proteinase-resistant lectin could play a vital role after ingestion and is expected to have an inhibitory effect against colorectal cancer.
期刊介绍:
Fisheries Science is the official journal of the Japanese Society of Fisheries Science, which was established in 1932. Recognized as a leading journal in its field, Fisheries Science is respected internationally for the publication of basic and applied research articles in a broad range of subject areas relevant to fisheries science. All articles are peer-reviewed by at least two experts in the field of the submitted paper. Published six times per year, Fisheries Science includes about 120 articles per volume. It has a rich history of publishing quality papers in fisheries, biology, aquaculture, environment, chemistry and biochemistry, food science and technology, and Social Science.