A quantitative in silico analysis calculates the angiotensin I converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitory activity in pea and whey protein digests (original) (raw)
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In vitro gastrointestinal digestion of pea and whey protein produced high angiotensin I converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitory activity with IC 50 values of 0.070 and 0.041 mg protein ml −1 respectively. Ultrafiltration/centrifugation using a membrane with a molecular weight cut-off of 3000 Da decreased the IC 50 value to 0.055 mg protein ml −1 for pea permeate and 0.014 mg protein ml −1 for whey permeate. Further fractionation by reverse phase HPLC gave IC 50 values as low as 0.016 mg protein ml −1 for pea and 0.003 mg protein ml −1 for whey. Consequently, these purification steps enriched the ACE inhibitory activity of the pea digest more than four times and that of the whey digest more than 13 times. HPLC profiles after digestion and ultrafiltration indicate that high ACE inhibitory activity is due to short and more hydrophobic peptides. The results also suggest that potent ACE inhibitory peptides were present alongside low active peptides in whey hydrolysate, while all peptides had more or less the same ACE inhibitory activity in pea hydrolysate. In addition, the hydrolysates and enriched fractions will resist in vivo gastrointestinal digestion after oral administration. Hence these ACE inhibitory peptides, as part of functional foods, can play significant roles in the prevention and treatment of hypertension.
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Journal of Dairy Science, 2022
An improved bioassay-guided fractionation was performed to effectively screen angiotensin-I converting enzyme inhibitory (ACEI) peptides from milk protein hydrolysate. The aqueous normal phase liquid chromatography, namely hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography (HILIC), was used as a format of solid-phase extraction (SPE) short column for the first fractionation, then the HILIC-SPE fraction with the best ACEI activity (IC 50 = 61.75 ± 5.74 µg/mL; IC 50 = half-maximal inhibitory concentration) was obtained when eluted by 95% acetonitrile + 0.1% formic acid (fraction F1). The best HILIC-SPE fraction was further fractionated using reversed-phase (RP)-SPE short column. The best RP-SPE fraction was obtained when eluted by 20% acetonitrile + 0.1% formic acid (fraction P3) with an ACEI activity of IC 50 36.22 ± 1.18 µg/mL. After the 2-step fractionation, the IC 50 value of fraction P3 significantly decreased by 8.92-fold when compared with the crude hydrolysate. Several peptides were identified from fraction P3 using liquid chromatographytandem mass spectrometry. The in silico analysis of these identified sequences based on the BIOPEP database predicted that HLPLPLL (HL-7) was the most active peptide against angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE). The HL-7 derived from β-casein showed a potent ACEI activity (IC 50 value is 16.87 ± 0.3 µM). The contents of HL-7 in the gastrointestinal protease hydrolysate and RP-SPE fraction originated from 1 mg of milk proteins were quantified using a multiple reaction monitoring mode upon liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry analysis to give 19.86 ± 1.14 pg and 14,545.8 ± 572.9 pg, respectively. Besides, the kinetic study indicated that HL-7 was a competitive inhibi-tor and the result was rationalized using the docking simulation. The study demonstrated an efficient screening of ACEI peptides from commercially available milk powders using a simple SPE process instead of a sophisticated instrument such as HPLC. Moreover, the potent ACEI peptide HL-7 uncovered by this method could be a natural ACE inhibitor.
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