Structural Characterization of Polysaccharide Derived from Gastrodia elata and Its Immunostimulatory Effect on RAW264.7 Cells

A polysaccharide from Gastrodia elata (named GEP-1) was isolated with a DEAE-52 column and Sephadex G-100 column. The structural characteristics showed that GEP-1 was mainly composed of glucose (92.04%), galactose (4.79%) and arabinose (2.19%) with a molecular weight of 76.444 kDa. The polydispersity (Mw/Mn) of GEP-1 was 1.25, indicating that the distribution of molar mass (Mw) was relatively narrow, which suggested that GEP-1 was a homogeneous polysaccharide. Moreover, the molecular conformation plot of the root mean square (RMS) radius (<rg2> 1/2) versus Mw yielded a line with a slope less than 0.33 (0.15 ± 0.02), displaying that GEP-1 is a compact and curly spherical molecule in NaNO3 aqueous solution. NMR and methylation analyses revealed that the main chain structure of GEP-1 was α-(1→4)-glucans. Furthermore, it was proven that GEP-1 possessed cytoproliferative and enhancing phagocytic activities and induced cytokine (TNF-α, IL1-β) and nitric oxide (NO) release in macrophages by upregulating the related gene expression. In addition, the RNA-seq results suggested that the GEP-1-induced immunomodulatory effect was mainly caused by activation of the NF-κB signaling pathway, which was further verified by NF-κB ELISA and pathway inhibition assays. As a result, GEP-1 exhibits the potential to be developed as a novel cheap immunostimulant without obvious toxicity.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:27

Enthalten in:

Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) - 27(2022), 22 vom: 20. Nov.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Guan, Hao [VerfasserIn]
Ling, Xi [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Juan [VerfasserIn]
Zhu, Yongquan [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Jiayan [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Xiangyi [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Dietary Carbohydrates
Immunologic Factors
Immunomodulatory
Journal Article
NF-kappa B
Pathways
Polysaccharide
Polysaccharides
Structure

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Date Completed 29.11.2022

Date Revised 08.03.2023

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/molecules27228059

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM349451168