Fusco Alessandra, Guarnieri Anna, Scieuzo Carmen, Triunfo Micaela, Salvia Rosanna, Donnarumma Giovanna, Falabella Patrizia
Department of Life Sciences, Health and Health Professions, Link Campus University, 00165 Rome, Italy.
Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Naples 80138, Italy.
Biomacromolecules. 2025 May 12;26(5):3224-3233. doi: 10.1021/acs.biomac.5c00362. Epub 2025 Apr 29.
Chitosan, renowned for its important biological properties, is a valuable pharmaceutical excipient for different therapeutic approaches. Currently, the demand for the biopolymer on the market is growing, and, for this reason, it is important to biologically characterize the biopolymer produced from an alternative source to crustaceans, specifically the bioconverter insect . In this work, insect chitosan, yielded via heterogeneous and homogeneous deacetylation from larvae, pupal exuviae, and adults, was studied as an immunomodulatory agent. The inflammatory response of immortalized human keratinocyte cells was induced by subsp. serovar Typhimurium lipopolysaccharide. After that, the ability of the biopolymer to reduce the expression of the pro-inflammatory cytokines IL-6, IL-8, IL-1α, and TNF-α was tested after 6 and 24 h of treatment. Insect chitosan samples effectively downregulated cytokine expression, with improved activity obtained from heterogeneous chitosan treatments.
壳聚糖因其重要的生物学特性而闻名,是用于不同治疗方法的有价值的药物赋形剂。目前,市场上对这种生物聚合物的需求正在增长,因此,从甲壳类动物的替代来源,特别是生物转化昆虫中生产的生物聚合物进行生物学表征非常重要。在这项工作中,通过幼虫、蛹蜕和成虫的非均相和均相脱乙酰化产生的昆虫壳聚糖被作为一种免疫调节剂进行研究。鼠伤寒沙门氏菌亚种血清型鼠伤寒脂多糖诱导永生化人角质形成细胞的炎症反应。之后,在处理6小时和24小时后,测试了该生物聚合物降低促炎细胞因子IL-6、IL-8、IL-1α和TNF-α表达的能力。昆虫壳聚糖样品有效地下调了细胞因子的表达,非均相壳聚糖处理获得了更好的活性。
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