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Analysis of the Mechanism and Changes in Law of DPP-IV Inhibition Activity of Casein Digestion in Vitro

Jing-Jing QianMou-Ming Mou-MingZHAO 2   

  • Received:2019-07-23 Revised:2020-05-07 Online:2020-08-15 Published:2020-08-19
  • Contact: Mou-Ming Mou-MingZHAO E-mail:femmzhao@scut.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    the National Natural Science Foundation of China;the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities

Abstract: In recent years, milk proteins have become an important potential source of DPP-IV inhibitory peptides. In this paper, bovine casein was subjected to the in vitro gastrointestinal digestion, and the digestive properties and DPP-IV inhibitory activities of casein hydrolysates during digestion were determined. Furthermore, peptides with typical structure features of DPP-IV inhibitory peptides were analyzed by liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) in order to elucidate the mechanism underlying the change of DPP-IV inhibitory activities of casein hydrolysate during digestion. As a result, the degree of hydrolysis and digestibility increased with the prolongation of digestion time, resulting in the release of small molecular peptides. The DPP-IV inhibition effects also increased during the digestion process, and reached the highest value of 58.04% at 4 h, which was about 2-fold higher than that at 2 h (23.22%). The degree of hydrolysis and protein digestibility had a certain effect on the release of DPP-IV inhibitory peptides. Furthermore, peptides with typical structure features of DPP-IV inhibitory peptides (i.e., Xaa-Pro/Ala- and Trp-Xaa-) were analyzed by LC-MS/MS to explore the mechanism underlying the change of DPP-IV inhibitory activities of casein digests during digestion. The pepsin digestion generated 25 target peptides, and the molecular weight was mainly >5 kD, while the pancreatin digestion produced a total of 48 target peptides with molecular weight <1 kD. Combined with heat map results, the number and content of peptides in casein digests after pepsin-pancreatin digestion were increased by compared with that after pepsin digestion, which was consistent with the trend of DPP-IV inhibitory activities. It indicated that the DPP-IV inhibitory activities of casein digests during in vitro digestion were closely related to the release of Xaa-Pro/Ala- and Trp-Xaa- peptides.

Key words: Liquid chromatographic tandem mass spectrometry (LC–MS/MS), Bovine casein, Peptides, Dipeptidyl peptidase IV inhibitory peptides, Simulated gastrointestinal digestion

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