Ying Li, Mouming Zhao, Kirk L Parkin
Department of Food Science, Babcock Hall, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1605 Linden Drive, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States.
Journal of agricultural and food chemistry 2011 Mar 23A murine hepatoma (Hepa 1c1c7) cellular bioassay was used to guide the isolation of phase II enzyme inducers from fermented soy sauce, using quinone reductase (QR) as a biomarker. A crude ethyl acetate extract, accounting for 8.7% of nonsalt soluble solids of soy sauce, was found to double relative QR specific activity at 25 μg/mL (concentration required to double was defined as a "CD value"). Further silica gel column fractionation yielded 17 fractions, 16 of which exhibited CD values for QR induction of <100 μg/mL. The four most potent fractions were subfractionated by column and preparative thin layer chromatography, leading to the isolation and identification of two phenolic compounds (catechol and daidzein) and two β-carbolines (flazin and perlolyrin), with respective CD values of 8, 35, 42, and 2 μM. Western blots confirmed that the increases in QR activity corresponded to dose-dependent increases in cellular levels of NAD[P]H:quinone oxidoreductase 1 protein by these four QR inducers. To the authors' knowledge, this is the first report on the ability of β-carboline-derived alkaloids to induce phase II enzymes.
Ying Li, Mouming Zhao, Kirk L Parkin. β-carboline derivatives and diphenols from soy sauce are in vitro quinone reductase (QR) inducers. Journal of agricultural and food chemistry. 2011 Mar 23;59(6):2332-40
PMID: 21332190
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