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Zhang Y, Ren EF, Wen T, Lyu S, Gai L, Chen S, Li K, Han Z, Niu F, Niu D. Investigation into potential allergenicity of DBD plasma-treated casein digestion products based on immunoglobulin E linear epitopes and the sensitized-cell model. Food Chem 2024; 447:138940. [PMID: 38484545 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2024.138940] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2023] [Revised: 02/25/2024] [Accepted: 03/02/2024] [Indexed: 04/10/2024]
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The study aimed to investigate the allergenicity change in casein treated with dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) plasma during in vitro simulated digestion, focusing on the immunoglobulin E (IgE) linear epitopes and utilizing a sensitized-cell model. Results indicated that prior treatment with DBD plasma treatment (4 min) before simulated digestion led to a 10.5% reduction in the IgE-binding capacity of casein digestion products. Moreover, the release of biologically active substances induced from KU812 cells, including β-HEX release rate, human histamine, IL-4, IL-6, and TNF-α, decreased by 2.1, 28.1, 20.6, 11.6, and 17.3%, respectively. Through a combined analysis of LC-MS/MS and immunoinformatics tools, it was revealed that DBD plasma treatment promoted the degradation of the IgE linear epitopes of casein during digestion, particularly those located in the α-helix region of αs1-CN and αs2-CN. These findings suggest that DBD plasma treatment prior to digestion may alleviate casein allergic reactions.
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- Yongniu Zhang
- College of Light Industry and Food Engineering, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China
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- Guangxi Subtropical Crops Research Institute, Nanning 530001, China
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- Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Testing Institute of Product Quality, Nanning 530200, China
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- Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Testing Institute of Product Quality, Nanning 530200, China
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- College of Light Industry and Food Engineering, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China
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- College of Light Industry and Food Engineering, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China
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- College of Light Industry and Food Engineering, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China
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- School of Food Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, China
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- Food Safety Key Lab of Zhejiang Province, School of Food Science and Biotechnology, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou 310018, China
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- College of Light Industry and Food Engineering, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China.
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Liu WL, Wang H, Hu YM, Wang XM, Chen HQ, Tu ZC. Mechanism of the Allergenicity Reduction of Ovalbumin by Microwave Pretreatment-Assisted Enzymolysis through Biological Mass Spectrometry. JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY 2023; 71:15363-15374. [PMID: 37797215 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.3c04613] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/07/2023]
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Ovalbumin (OVA) is a major allergen in hen eggs. Enzymolysis has been demonstrated as an efficient method for reducing OVA allergenicity. This study demonstrates that microwave pretreatment (MP) at 400 W for 20 s assisting bromelain enzymolysis further decreases the allergenicity of OVA, which was attributed to the increase in the degree of hydrolysis and promoted the destruction of IgE-binding epitopes. The results showed that MP could promote OVA unfolding, expose hydrophobic domains, and disrupt tightly packed α-helical structures and disulfide bonds, which increased the degree of hydrolysis by 7.28% and the contents of peptides below 1 kDa from 43.55 to 85.06% in hydrolysates compared with that for untreated OVA. Biological mass spectrometry demonstrated that the number of intact IgE-binding epitope peptides in MP-assisted OVA hydrolysates decreased by 533 compared to that in hydrolysis without MP; consequently, their IgG/IgE binding rates decreased more significantly. Therefore, MP-assisted enzymolysis may provide an alternative method for decreasing the OVA allergenicity.
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- Wen Li Liu
- State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Resources, Nanchang University, 235 Nanjing East Road, Nanchang, Jiangxi 330047, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Resources, Nanchang University, 235 Nanjing East Road, Nanchang, Jiangxi 330047, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Resources, Nanchang University, 235 Nanjing East Road, Nanchang, Jiangxi 330047, China
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- National R&D Center of Freshwater Fish Processing and Engineering Research Center of Freshwater Fish High-value Utilization of Jiangxi Province, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, Jiangxi 330022, China
- College of Health, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, Jiangxi 330022, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Resources, Nanchang University, 235 Nanjing East Road, Nanchang, Jiangxi 330047, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Resources, Nanchang University, 235 Nanjing East Road, Nanchang, Jiangxi 330047, China
- National R&D Center of Freshwater Fish Processing and Engineering Research Center of Freshwater Fish High-value Utilization of Jiangxi Province, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, Jiangxi 330022, China
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Wang K, Liu D, Tao X, Zhang J, Huppertz T, Regenstein JM, Liu X, Zhou P. Decalcification strongly affects in vitro gastrointestinal digestion of bovine casein micelles under infant, adult and elderly conditions. Food Hydrocoll 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.foodhyd.2023.108515] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Insights into in vitro digestion properties and peptide profiling of Chinese rubing PDO cheese prepared using different acidification technology. Food Res Int 2022; 158:111564. [DOI: 10.1016/j.foodres.2022.111564] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2022] [Revised: 06/16/2022] [Accepted: 06/21/2022] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Sun N, Liu Y, Liu K, Wang S, Liu Q, Lin S. Gastrointestinal fate of food allergens and its relationship with allergenicity. Compr Rev Food Sci Food Saf 2022; 21:3376-3404. [PMID: 35751399 DOI: 10.1111/1541-4337.12989] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2021] [Revised: 03/29/2022] [Accepted: 05/09/2022] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Food allergens are closely related to their gastrointestinal digestion fate, but the changes in food allergens during digestion and related mechanisms are quite complicated. This review presents in detail digestion models for predicting allergenicity, the fates of food allergens in oral, gastric and duodenal digestion, and the applications of digestomics in mapping IgE-binding epitopes of digestion-resistant peptides. Moreover, this review highlights the structure-activity relationships of food allergens during gastrointestinal digestion. Digestion-labile allergens may share common structural characteristics, such as high flexibility, rendering them easier to be hydrolyzed into small fragments with decreased or eliminated allergenicity. In contrast, the presence of disulfide bonds, tightly wound α-helical structures, or hydrophobic domains in food allergens helps them resist gastrointestinal digestion, stabilizing IgE-binding epitopes, thus maintaining their sensitization. In rare cases, digestion leads to increased allergenicity due to exposure of new epitopes. Finally, the action of the food matrix and processing on the digestion and allergenicity of food allergens as well as the underlying mechanisms was overviewed. The food matrix can directly act on the allergen by forming complexes or new epitopes to affect its gastrointestinal digestibility and thereby alter its allergenicity or indirectly affect the allergenicity by competing for enzymatic cleavage or influencing gastrointestinal pH and microbial flora. Several processing techniques attenuate the allergenicity of food proteins by altering their conformation to improve susceptibility to degradation by digestive enzymes. Given the complexity of food components, the food itself rather than a single allergen should be used to obtain more accurate data for allergenicity assessment. PRACTICAL APPLICATION: The review article will help to understand the relationship between food protein digestion and allergenicity, and may provide fundamental information for evaluating and reducing the allergenicity of food proteins.
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- Na Sun
- School of Food Science and Technology, National Engineering Research Center of Seafood, Dalian Polytechnic University, Dalian, P. R. China.,Collaborative Innovation Center of Seafood Deep Processing, Dalian Polytechnic University, Dalian, P. R. China
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- School of Food Science and Technology, National Engineering Research Center of Seafood, Dalian Polytechnic University, Dalian, P. R. China
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- School of Food Science and Technology, National Engineering Research Center of Seafood, Dalian Polytechnic University, Dalian, P. R. China
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- School of Food Science and Technology, National Engineering Research Center of Seafood, Dalian Polytechnic University, Dalian, P. R. China
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- School of Food Science and Technology, National Engineering Research Center of Seafood, Dalian Polytechnic University, Dalian, P. R. China.,Collaborative Innovation Center of Seafood Deep Processing, Dalian Polytechnic University, Dalian, P. R. China
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- School of Food Science and Technology, National Engineering Research Center of Seafood, Dalian Polytechnic University, Dalian, P. R. China.,Collaborative Innovation Center of Seafood Deep Processing, Dalian Polytechnic University, Dalian, P. R. China
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In vitro bioaccessibilities of vitamin C in baby biscuits prepared with or without UHT cow’s milk. J Food Compost Anal 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jfca.2022.104706] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Mullins E, Bresson J, Dalmay T, Dewhurst IC, Epstein MM, George Firbank L, Guerche P, Hejatko J, Naegeli H, Nogué F, Rostoks N, Sánchez Serrano JJ, Savoini G, Veromann E, Veronesi F, Fernandez Dumont A, Moreno FJ. Scientific Opinion on development needs for the allergenicity and protein safety assessment of food and feed products derived from biotechnology. EFSA J 2022; 20:e07044. [PMID: 35106091 PMCID: PMC8787593 DOI: 10.2903/j.efsa.2022.7044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
Abstract
This Scientific Opinion addresses the formulation of specific development needs, including research requirements for allergenicity assessment and protein safety, in general, which is urgently needed in a world that demands more sustainable food systems. Current allergenicity risk assessment strategies are based on the principles and guidelines of the Codex Alimentarius for the safety assessment of foods derived from 'modern' biotechnology initially published in 2003. The core approach for the safety assessment is based on a 'weight-of-evidence' approach because no single piece of information or experimental method provides sufficient evidence to predict allergenicity. Although the Codex Alimentarius and EFSA guidance documents successfully addressed allergenicity assessments of single/stacked event GM applications, experience gained and new developments in the field call for a modernisation of some key elements of the risk assessment. These should include the consideration of clinical relevance, route of exposure and potential threshold values of food allergens, the update of in silico tools used with more targeted databases and better integration and standardisation of test materials and in vitro/in vivo protocols. Furthermore, more complex future products will likely challenge the overall practical implementation of current guidelines, which were mainly targeted to assess a few newly expressed proteins. Therefore, it is timely to review and clarify the main purpose of the allergenicity risk assessment and the vital role it plays in protecting consumers' health. A roadmap to (re)define the allergenicity safety objectives and risk assessment needs will be required to inform a series of key questions for risk assessors and risk managers such as 'what is the purpose of the allergenicity risk assessment?' or 'what level of confidence is necessary for the predictions?'.
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Herrera MG, Nicoletti F, Gras M, Dörfler PW, Tonali N, Hannappel Y, Ennen I, Hütten A, Hellweg T, Lammers KM, Dodero VI. Pepsin Digest of Gliadin Forms Spontaneously Amyloid-Like Nanostructures Influencing the Expression of Selected Pro-Inflammatory, Chemoattractant, and Apoptotic Genes in Caco-2 Cells: Implications for Gluten-Related Disorders. Mol Nutr Food Res 2021; 65:e2100200. [PMID: 34110092 DOI: 10.1002/mnfr.202100200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2021] [Revised: 05/05/2021] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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SCOPE Proteolysis-resistant gliadin peptides are intensely investigated in biomedical research relates to celiac disease and gluten-related disorders. Herein, the first integrated supramolecular investigation of pepsin-digested gliadin peptides (p-gliadin) is presented in combination with its functional behavior in the Caco-2 cell line. METHODS AND RESULTS First, gliadins are degraded by pepsin at pH 3, and the physicochemical properties of p-gliadin are compared with gliadin. An integrated approach using interfacial, spectroscopic, and microscopic techniques reveals that the p-gliadin forms spontaneously soluble large supramolecular structures, mainly oligomers and fibrils, capable of binding amyloid-sensitive dyes. The self-assembly of p-gliadin starts at a concentration of 0.40 µg mL-1 . Second, the stimulation of Caco-2 cells with the p-gliadin supramolecular system is performed, and the mRNA expression levels of a panel of genes are tested. The experiments show that p-gliadin composed of supramolecular structures triggers significant mRNA up-regulation (p < 0.05) of pro-apoptotic biomarkers (ratio Bcl2/Bak-1), chemokines (CCL2, CCL3, CCL4, CCL5, CXCL8), and the chemokine receptor CXCR3. CONCLUSIONS This work demonstrates that p-gliadin is interfacial active, forming spontaneously amyloid-type structures that trigger genes in the Caco-2 cell line involved in recruiting specialized immune cells.
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- Maria Georgina Herrera
- Department of Chemistry, Organic Chemistry III, Bielefeld University, Universitätsstr. 25, Bielefeld, 33615, Germany.,Institute of Biological Chemistry and Physical Chemistry, Dr. Alejandro Paladini, University of Buenos Aires-CONICET, Buenos Aires, C1113AAD, Argentina
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- Department of Chemistry, Organic Chemistry III, Bielefeld University, Universitätsstr. 25, Bielefeld, 33615, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Organic Chemistry III, Bielefeld University, Universitätsstr. 25, Bielefeld, 33615, Germany.,Department of Chemistry, Physical and Biophysical Chemistry, Bielefeld University, Universitätsstr. 25, Bielefeld, 33615, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Organic Chemistry III, Bielefeld University, Universitätsstr. 25, Bielefeld, 33615, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Organic Chemistry III, Bielefeld University, Universitätsstr. 25, Bielefeld, 33615, Germany.,Faculté de Pharmacie, Université Paris-Saclay, BioCIS, 5 rue Jean-Baptiste Clément, Châtenay-Malabry, 92296, France
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- Department of Chemistry, Physical and Biophysical Chemistry, Bielefeld University, Universitätsstr. 25, Bielefeld, 33615, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Bielefeld University, Universitätsstr. 25, Bielefeld, 33615, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Bielefeld University, Universitätsstr. 25, Bielefeld, 33615, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Physical and Biophysical Chemistry, Bielefeld University, Universitätsstr. 25, Bielefeld, 33615, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Organic Chemistry III, Bielefeld University, Universitätsstr. 25, Bielefeld, 33615, Germany.,Tubascan Ltd., Science Park 106, Amsterdam, 1098 XG, the Netherlands
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- Department of Chemistry, Organic Chemistry III, Bielefeld University, Universitätsstr. 25, Bielefeld, 33615, Germany
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Xue H, Han J, He B, Yi M, Liu X, Song H, Li J. Bioactive peptide release and the absorption tracking of casein in the gastrointestinal digestion of rats. Food Funct 2021; 12:5157-5170. [PMID: 33977978 DOI: 10.1039/d1fo00356a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Bovine casein is considered as an important source of many bioactive peptides (BAPs), which can also be produced via in vitro simulated gastrointestinal hydrolysis. To perform their physiological functions, some active peptides need to pass through the intestinal epithelial barrier and keep their structural integrity after oral administration. Owing to the complexity of in vivo digestion and absorption, there have been few studies in this area. In this study, casein was labeled with FITC to trace its digestion and absorption in Sprague Dawley (SD) rats. Gastric juice, intestinal fluid, blood, and intestinal tissue samples were collected at different time-points for preservation and analysis after intragastric administration. The results showed that CN-FITC exhibited good labeling stability in the gastrointestinal digestive juice both in vivo and in vitro, suggesting its potential to be used for the detection and tracking of casein hydrolysate. After the intra-gastric administration of FITC, the diffusion rates of fluorescent substances in serum were much higher than in the CN-FITC group. The maximum peptide content in the CN-FITC group during intestinal digestion was achieved 2 h after administration, and electrophoretic analysis of the hydrolysate composition suggested that the molecular weights of the peptides were mainly concentrated in the range of 3.4-10 kDa. The hydrolyzed peptides from CN-FITC could be absorbed into the blood just 1 h after administration. Frozen sections of rat duodenal tissue were observed under a confocal laser scanning microscope, and they showed that the CN-FITC digested products were absorbed from villi to mucosa in the rat intestines, and the casein-hydrolyzed polypeptides were accumulated significantly in tissue samples 2 h after administration. The peptides were mainly absorbed in the duodenum on the basis of absorption experiments using an everted gut sac. After intestinal digestion for 2 h, peptides with weights less than 5 kDa were enriched and identified using LC-MS-MS, and they were found to be mainly derived from β-casein, containing potential angiotensin-I-converting enzyme inhibitory, antioxidant, dipeptidyl peptidase IV inhibitory, and morphine-like peptides. The peptides from casein hydrolysate were tracked entering the blood through the intestinal epithelial barrier in the form of complete fragments, and they might exert potential physiological activity in vivo.
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- Haiyan Xue
- School of Food and Biological Engineering, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Xi'an, 710021, P. R. China.
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- School of Food and Biological Engineering, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Xi'an, 710021, P. R. China.
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- College of Bioresources Chemical and Materials Engineering, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Xi'an 710021, P. R.China.
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- School of Food and Biological Engineering, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Xi'an, 710021, P. R. China.
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- School of Food and Biological Engineering, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Xi'an, 710021, P. R. China.
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- School of Food and Biological Engineering, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Xi'an, 710021, P. R. China.
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- School of Food and Biological Engineering, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Xi'an, 710021, P. R. China.
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Naegeli H, Bresson J, Dalmay T, Dewhurst IC, Epstein MM, Firbank LG, Guerche P, Hejatko J, Moreno FJ, Mullins E, Nogué F, Rostoks N, Sánchez Serrano JJ, Savoini G, Veromann E, Veronesi F, Dumont AF. Statement on in vitro protein digestibility tests in allergenicity and protein safety assessment of genetically modified plants. EFSA J 2021; 19:e06350. [PMID: 33473251 PMCID: PMC7801955 DOI: 10.2903/j.efsa.2021.6350] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
Abstract
This statement supplements and updates the GMO Panel guidance document on allergenicity of genetically modified (GM) plants published in 2017. In that guidance document, the GMO Panel considered that additional investigations on in vitro protein digestibility were needed before providing any additional recommendations in the form of guidance to applicants. Thus, an interim phase was proposed to assess the utility of an enhanced in vitro digestion test, as compared to the classical pepsin resistance test. Historically, resistance to degradation by pepsin using the classical pepsin resistance test has been considered as additional information, in a weight-of-evidence approach, for the assessment of allergenicity and toxicity of newly expressed proteins in GM plants. However, more recent evidence does not support this test as a good predictor of allergenic potential for hazard. Furthermore, there is a need for more reliable systems to predict the fate of the proteins in the gastrointestinal tract and how they interact with the relevant human cells. Nevertheless, the classical pepsin resistance test can still provide some information on the physicochemical properties of novel proteins relating to their stability under acidic conditions. But other methods can be used to obtain data on protein's structural and/or functional integrity. It is acknowledged that the classical pepsin resistance test is embedded into international guidelines, e.g. Codex Alimentarius and Regulation (EU) No 503/2013. For future development, a deeper understanding of protein digestion in the gastrointestinal tract could enable the framing of more robust strategies for the safety assessment of proteins. Given the high complexity of the digestion and absorption process of dietary proteins, it is needed to clarify and identify the aspects that could be relevant to assess potential risks of allergenicity and toxicity of proteins. To this end, a series of research questions to be addressed are also formulated in this statement.
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