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Interaction Between Porous Silica Gel Microcarriers and Peptides for Oral Administration of Functional Peptides

Interaction Between Porous Silica Gel Microcarriers and Peptides for Oral Administration of Functional Peptides

Kento Imai, Kazunori Shimizu, Mitsuhiro Kamimura, Hiroyuki Honda

Sci Rep. 2018 Jul 20;8(1):10971.

PMID: 30030485

Abstract:

Functional peptides, peptides that have biological activities, have attracted attention as active ingredients of functional foods and health foods. In particular, for food applications, because orally ingested peptides are degraded by digestive enzymes in the stomach, novel oral administration methods that can prevent peptide degradation and successfully deliver them intestinally are desired. In the present study, we focused on porous silica gel, which has many useful characteristics, such as large surface area, pH responsive functional groups, size controllable pores, and approval as food additives. We investigated the possibility of using porous silica gel as a peptide degradation protective microcarrier. As a result, we found that heat treatment of the silica gel at 600 °C for 2 h remarkably enhanced the adsorbed amount of many peptides under acidic conditions, and negatively charged and highly hydrophobic peptides had suitable characteristics for oral intestinal delivery with silica gel. Finally, we demonstrated the degree of protection from pepsin degradation and found that the protection of DFELEDD peptide was 57.1 ± 3.9% when DFELEDD was mixed with the heat-treated silica gel. These results indicated that the heat-treated silica gel is promising for efficient oral intestinal delivery of hydrophobic negatively charged peptides.

Chemicals Related in the Paper:

Catalog Number	Product Name	Structure	CAS Number	Price
AP112926008	Silica gel		112926-00-8	Price

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