JP2005263723A - Beta-amyloid toxicity relaxing agent - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a β-amyloid toxicity relaxing agent which exhibits a large effect in suppressing Alzheimer's disease and has no problem with safeness. <P>SOLUTION: The β-amyloid toxicity relaxing agent contains an actomyosin decomposition product as an active component. The actomysin decomposition product is prepared by subjecting actomyosin extracted from animal muscle, especially pig skeletal muscle, to enzymolysis in the presence of a protease, such as papain, phytin, pepsin, trypsin, α-chymotrypsin, thermolysin, pronase, or bromelain. An especially preferable actomyosin decomposition product is prepared by decomposing actomyosin in water of a pH of 3-12 in the presence of papain and taking out such a part of the resultant decomposition product that the part has a molecular weight of 10,000 or lower. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a β-amyloid (hereinafter referred to as “βA”) toxicity mitigating agent, and more particularly to a βA toxicity mitigating agent containing an actomyosin degradation product as an active ingredient.

With the aging of society, senile dementia has become a major social problem. Alzheimer's disease, a typical disease of senile dementia, has been intensively studied by many researchers until now, but the cause of its onset has not yet been fully elucidated, and a satisfactory prevention method In fact, no treatment method has been established. So far, the theory that senile plaques are deposited, which causes neurons to fall off and cause brain atrophy, has become dominant. Senile plaque has βA as its main component, has a cytotoxic effect, and is considered to cause neuronal cell death in Alzheimer's disease. βA is an easily aggregated peptide consisting of 39 to 43 amino acids, and when added to primary cultured neurons derived from the cerebral cortex or hippocampus, the cells are damaged and cell death due to apoptosis is caused. In particular, it has been reported that a fragment of 25-35 (βA _25-35 ) in the amino acid sequence is most important for the expression of β-amyloid cytotoxicity. [Refer nonpatent literature 1].

  From such a viewpoint, it is considered that Alzheimer's disease can be prevented by alleviating the toxicity of βA to nerve cells, and compounds having a βA toxicity mitigating action have been reported so far. For example, 2- (8-dimethylaminooctylthio) -3- (2-thenoyl) -6-isopropylpyridine citrate [see Patent Document 1], N- (aryl / heteroaryl) amino acid derivative [Patent Document 2] See]. From the standpoint of safety, peptides consisting of 3 amino acid residues [see Patent Document 3], tea-derived polyphenols derived from natural products [see Patent Document 4], catechins and green tea extracts [see Patent Document 5], etc. are reported. Has been.

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  In view of this situation, an object of the present invention is to provide a βA toxicity mitigating agent that has a large effect of suppressing the progression of Alzheimer's disease and that has no problem with safety.

  In order to achieve the above object, the βA toxicity mitigating agent according to claim 1 of the present invention contains an actomyosin degradation product as an active ingredient.

  The βA safener according to claim 2 uses an extract from animal muscle as actomyosin in claim 1.

  The βA toxicity relieving agent according to claim 3 uses porcine skeletal muscle as the animal muscle in claim 2.

  The βA toxicity mitigating agent according to claim 4 uses, as the degradation product of actomyosin according to claim 1, a degradation product obtained by enzymatic degradation in the presence of protease.

  The βA toxicity relieving agent according to claim 5 uses, as the protease according to claim 4, one or more selected from papain, phytin, pepsin, trypsin, α-chymotrypsin, thermolysin, pronase, and bromelain.

  The βA safener according to claim 6 uses a degradation product in water having a pH of 3 to 12 in the presence of papain as the degradation product of actomyosin in claim 1.

  The βA toxicity mitigating agent according to claim 7 uses, as the degradation product of actomyosin according to claim 1, a product obtained by fractionating a molecular weight of 10,000 or less from the degradation product.

  As an effect of the present invention, there is provided a βA toxicity mitigating agent that has a great effect of preventing Alzheimer's disease and suppressing the progression of Alzheimer's disease and has few side effects even when ingested in a large amount.

  The βA safener of the present invention contains an actomyosin degradation product as an active ingredient. Actomyosin is abundant in animal muscles, particularly animal skeletal muscles, and can be extracted from these in the present invention. Of these, porcine skeletal muscle is particularly preferable because it is easily available as a raw material and contains a large amount of actomyosin. The animal muscles may be raw meat or dry meat.

The method for extracting actomyosin from animal muscles is not particularly limited. For example, Non-Patent Document 2 [Brisky, E.J., Fukazawa T., Advancedces in Food. Minced muscle and buffer solution (0.6M-KCl / 0.04M-NaHCO ₃ /0.01M-Na) described in Research (Advances in Food Research), 19 卷, 279-360, 1971]. ₂ CO ₃ aqueous solution), repeated centrifugation, dialyzed in a dialysis tube, and then freeze-dried.

  Degradation of actomyosin can be obtained by chemically decomposing actomyosin in water or by microorganisms. However, when it is carried out in the presence of a protease, the degradation proceeds at a low temperature, and the active ingredient targeted by the present invention is reduced. It is preferable because it is selectively generated. Here, the protease includes papain, phytin, pepsin, trypsin, α-chymotrypsin, thermolysin, pronase, bromelain and the like, and one or more are arbitrarily selected from these. Of these, hydrolysis using papain is particularly preferred because of the excellent βA toxicity mitigating action of the present invention. For these, commercially available products can be used.

  The conditions for carrying out the enzymatic degradation using a protease vary depending on the type of protease and its titer, but are typically 20 to 50 ° C., particularly 35 to 40 ° C., and about 20 to 30 hours. The optimum pH range of the protease to be used is different, for example, pH 3 to 12 for papain, pH 4 to 10 for phytin, trypsin, α-chymotrypsin, thermolysin, pronase, bromelain and the like, and pepsin is pH 2 to 4. The alkali or acid for adjusting the pH is preferably selected from those allowed for foods, such as sodium hydroxide, potassium hydroxide, hydrochloric acid and the like.

  The amount of protease used varies greatly depending on the actomyosin concentration, protease titer, temperature, treatment time, etc., but is generally 0.5-2% by weight based on the muscle mass of the animal used to extract actomyosin. Degree.

  When actomyosin is decomposed using a protease, the temperature of the decomposition mixture is raised to 80 to 100 ° C. after the completion of this step to inactivate the protease.

  The actomyosin degradation product thus obtained contains the active ingredient of the βA safener of the present invention. In the actomyosin degradation product, other components are also included, but the other components in this case have no adverse effect on the βA toxicity mitigating action. However, when used as a medicine or a supplement, it may be desirable to concentrate the active ingredient as much as possible. For example, the active ingredient of the present invention can be fractionated by liquid chromatography. An example of the sorting operation will be described in an embodiment described later.

  Moreover, the remarkable effect was seen in the part whose molecular weight is 10,000 or less among the fractionated active ingredients. Therefore, if necessary, a more effective component can be separated by fractionating a molecular weight of 10,000 or less. However, this fractionation is not essential, and all active ingredients may be used, and the decomposition mixture may be used as it is without separating the active ingredients from the decomposition product mixture. Fractionation based on molecular weight can be performed by a known method such as ultrafiltration.

  The active ingredient described above or a mixture containing the active ingredient is used as a pharmaceutical composition or a supplementary food composition by adding an acid or the like, if necessary, and is usually taken orally into the human body. The amount of the active ingredient in the prevention and treatment of Alzheimer's disease is about 10 to 200 mg / kg / day as an active ingredient when administered to humans.

  For oral administration, for example, binders (syrup, gelatin, sorbit, hydroxypropylcellulose, etc.), excipients (lactose, sugar, corn starch, calcium phosphate, sorbit, etc.), lubricants (magnesium stearate, talc, polyethylene) Glycol, silica, etc.), disintegrants (potato starch, carboxymethyl cellulose, etc.), wetting agents (sodium lauryl sulfate, etc.) may be included, but should be combined with these components unless the effect of the present invention is impaired. Is no problem. In addition, since this active ingredient has an advantage that it does not adversely affect the living body even if it is ingested in a large amount, it can be added to supplementary foods as it is or together with various nutrients.

  Hereinafter, the present invention will be described with reference to examples. The following examples are given to illustrate the present invention and are not intended to limit the present invention. In the following examples, examination was performed on rat adrenal medullo pheochromocytoma-derived PC12 cells widely used in nerve cell models to differentiate into sympathetic neurons by nerve growth factors.

[Preparation of degradation product of actomyosin]
Actomyosin is minced in porcine skeletal muscle and suspended in a buffer (0.6 M-KCl / 0.04 M-NaHCO ₃ /0.01 M-Na ₂ CO ₃ aqueous solution) by the method of Non-Patent Document 2 described above. Centrifugal separation was repeated, dialyzed in a dialysis tube, and then freeze-dried.

  1 mg of porcine skeletal muscle actomyosin freeze-dried product was added to 1 ml of distilled water and suspended, and 10 μg of protease was added thereto and reacted at 37 ° C. for 24 hours. Immediately after the reaction, the protease was inactivated by boiling for 10 minutes. A part of the reaction mixture was centrifuged (10,000 × g, 10 minutes), and the supernatant was ultrafiltered (“Micron 10” (trade name) manufactured by Amicon). Fractionated molecular weight = 10,000], and fractionated into a low molecular weight (molecular weight 10,000 or less) portion and a high molecular weight (greater than molecular weight 10,000) portion.

  In this example, as the protease, papain [product of Tokyo Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.], phytin [product of Tokyo Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.], pepsin [product of Wako Pure Chemical Industries, Ltd.], trypsin [Wako Pure Chemical Industries, Ltd.] Co., Ltd.], α-chymotrypsin (product of Wako Pure Chemical Industries, Ltd.), thermolysin (product of Sigma), pronase E (product of Merck), Bromelain F (product of Amano Enzyme Co., Ltd.) Each of these was used.

[Cell culture]
Using a cell culture flask (Greiner product), Dulbecco's modified Eagle medium (Sigma product), 5% (v / v) fetal calf serum (Invitrogen product), 10% (V / v) Horse serum [product of Invitrogen] was added, and rat adrenal pheochromocytoma-derived PC12 cells [RIKEN BioResource Center, cell number: RCB0009, cell name: PC12] 1 × 10 ⁵ / mL was inoculated and cultured in a 37 ° C., 5% CO ₂ incubator.

[Measurement of cell viability]
For the measurement of cell viability, a method using the reduction action of tetrazolium salt (WST-1) of mitochondrial dehydrase in living cells as an index is widely used. WST-1 reducing ability was used as an index. βA was used after being dissolved in distilled water using βA _25-35 [American Peptide Company product].

[Example 1]
ΒA _25-35 toxicity mitigating action on PC12 cells is based on the method of Heo et al. (Heo, HJ, et al., 8 authors, Molecular Cell, 10 卷, 253-262, 2000). However, the measurement was carried out by a method with some changes. Using a Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium supplemented with 0.5% (v / v) fetal bovine serum and 1% (v / v) horse serum, 80 μL of the above cell solution was added to a 96-well plate (Becton Dickinson). PC12 cells were seeded at 1 × 10 ⁴ / well and cultured in a 5% CO ₂ incubator. Pig skeletal muscle actomyosin degradation mixture 10μL in each well was added 22 hours after culturing, followed by (final concentration of _βA 25~35: 40μM) 400μM aqueous solution 10μl of [beta] A _{25 to 35} in two hours after the addition of, 37 ° C. The cells were cultured for 48 hours in a 5% CO ₂ incubator. Next, 10 μL of a tetrazolium salt [manufactured by Takara Bio Inc., “Premix WST-1” (trade name)], which is a substrate for mitochondrial dehydrogenase, is added to each hole and allowed to react at 37 ° C. for 4 hours. It was. The reaction solution in each hole was measured for absorbance at a wavelength of 415 nm (target wavelength: 655 nm) using a microplate reader [Bio-Rad, “Model-550” (product name)]. As a control, distilled water not containing βA _25-35 was added.

FIG. 1 shows the PC12 cell viability of each system (control group) not containing βA _25-35 , where 100 is the PC12 cell viability. It can be seen that by adding βA _25-35 , the PC12 cell viability decreased, and βA _25-35 killed the PC12 cells. At the same time, the addition of an actomyosin degradation product alleviated the PC12 cell killing effect of βA _25-35 and increased the PC12 cell viability. Among these, the actomyosin degradation product using papain particularly increased the PC12 cell viability.

[Example 2]
The porcine skeletal muscle actomyosin decomposition mixture was ultrafiltered and fractionated into portions with a molecular weight of 10,000 or less and greater than 10,000, and the same as in the Examples except that the final concentration of βA _25-35 was 20 μM. Thus, the PC12 cell killing effect of βA _25-35 was evaluated. The results are shown in FIG.
Components having a molecular weight of 10,000 or less have a higher PC12 cell survival rate than components greater than 10,000, indicating that the PC12 cell killing action of βA _25-35 is greatly mitigated.

  It is effective as a supplement for preventing Alzheimer's disease, and as a therapeutic agent that further suppresses the progression of Alzheimer's disease.

It is the graph which compared the PC12 cell viability when (beta) _A25-35 was added and an actomyosin degradation product was added. was added [beta] A _{25 to 35,} the molecular weight of 10,000 or less of component and greater than 10,000 components of actomyosin degradation product is a graph comparing the PC12 cell viability.

Claims (7)

  A β-amyloid toxicity relieving agent characterized by containing a degradation product of actomyosin as an active ingredient.   The β-amyloid toxicity relieving agent according to claim 1, wherein the actomyosin is an extract from animal muscles.   The β-amyloid toxicity relieving agent according to claim 2, wherein the animal muscle is porcine skeletal muscle.   The β-amyloid toxicity relieving agent according to claim 1, wherein the degradation product of actomyosin is obtained by enzymatic degradation of actomyosin in the presence of a protease.   The β-amyloid toxicity mitigating agent according to claim 4, wherein the protease is at least one selected from papain, phytin, pepsin, trypsin, α-chymotrypsin, thermolysin, pronase, and bromelain.   The β-amyloid toxicity relieving agent according to claim 1, wherein the degradation product of actomyosin is obtained by decomposing actomyosin in water having a pH of 5 to 7 in the presence of papain. The β-amyloid toxicity mitigating agent according to claim 1, wherein the degradation product of actomyosin is a fraction obtained by fractionating a molecular weight of 10,000 or less from the degradation product.

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