OBESIDAD - digestión del gluten

Digested wheat gluten inhibits binding between leptin and its receptor

Tommy Jönsson^1*, Ashfaque A Memon¹, Kristina Sundquist¹, Jan Sundquist¹, Stefan Olsson², Amarnadh Nalla³⁴, Mikael Bauer⁵ and Sara Linse⁵

• *Corresponding author: Tommy Jönsson Tommy.Jonsson@med.lu.se

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BMC Biochemistry 2015, 16:3  doi:10.1186/s12858-015-0032-y

Published: 20 January 2015

Abstract (provisional)

BackgroundLeptin resistance is considered a primary risk factor for obesity. It has been hypothesized that dietary cereal grain protein could cause leptin resistance by preventing leptin from binding to its receptor. Non-degraded dietary wheat protein has been found in human serum at a mean level of 41?ng/mL. Here, we report our findings from testing whether enzymatically digested gluten from wheat prevents leptin from binding to the leptin receptor in vitro.Gluten from wheat was digested with pepsin and trypsin under physiological conditions. Pepsin and trypsin activity was removed from the gluten digest with a 10?kDa spin-filter or by heat treatment at 100?C for 30?min. Binding to the leptin receptor of leptin mixed with gluten digest at a series of concentrations was measured using surface plasmon resonance technology.ResultsBinding of the gluten digest to the leptin receptor was not detected. Spin-filtered gluten digest inhibited binding of leptin to the leptin receptor, with 50% inhibition at a gluten digest concentration of ~10?ng/mL. Heat-treated gluten digest did not inhibit leptin binding.ConclusionsDigested wheat gluten inhibits binding of leptin to the leptin receptor, with half-maximal inhibition at 10?ng/mL. The inhibition is significant at clinically relevant concentrations and could therefore serve as a novel pathway to investigate to understand the molecular basis of leptin resistance, obesity and associated disorders.

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