Anti-inflammatory implications of the microbial transformation of dietary phenolic compounds

Due to the success of therapeutic anti-inflammatory compounds to inhibit, retard, and reverse the development of colon cancer, the identification of dietary compounds as chemopreventives is being vigorously pursued. However, an important factor often overlooked is the metabolic transformation of the food-derived compounds in the gut that may affect their bioactivity. Commonly consumed dietary phenolics (esterified ferulic acid and its 5-5'-linked dimer), which have the potential to undergo predominant microbial transformations (de-esterification, hydrogenation, demethylation, dehydroxylation, and dimer cleavage), were incubated with human microbiota. The metabolites were identified (high-performance liquid chromatography and nuclear magnetic resonance) and confirmed to be present in fresh fecal samples from 4 human volunteers. The potential anti-inflammatory properties were compared by measuring the ability of the parent compounds and their metabolites to modulate prostanoid production in a cell line in which the inflammatory pathways were stimulated following a cytokine-induced insult. The compounds were readily de-esterified and hydrogenated, but no dimer cleavage occurred. Only the monomer underwent demethylation and selective de-hydroxylation. The resultant metabolites had differing effects on prostanoid production ranging from a slight increase to a significant reduction in magnitude. This suggests that the microbial transformation of dietary compounds will have important inflammatory implications in the chemoprevention of colon cancer.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2008

Erschienen:

2008

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:60

Enthalten in:

Nutrition and cancer - 60(2008), 5 vom: 15., Seite 636-42

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Russell, Wendy R [VerfasserIn]
Scobbie, Lorraine [VerfasserIn]
Chesson, Andrew [VerfasserIn]
Richardson, Anthony J [VerfasserIn]
Stewart, Colin S [VerfasserIn]
Duncan, Sylvia H [VerfasserIn]
Drew, Janice E [VerfasserIn]
Duthie, Garry G [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

AVM951ZWST
Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal
Coumaric Acids
Ferulic acid
Journal Article
Prostaglandins
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 17.02.2009

Date Revised 15.11.2012

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1080/01635580801987498

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM182427900