Lactucaxanthin – a potential anti-diabetic carotenoid from lettuce (Lactuca sativa) inhibits α-amylase and α-glucosidase activity in vitro and in diabetic rats.

Sowmyashree, G. and Jhansi Lakshmi, M. and Sharavana, Gurunathan and Gunaseelan, S. and Sreerama, Y. N. and Baskaran, V. (2017) Lactucaxanthin – a potential anti-diabetic carotenoid from lettuce (Lactuca sativa) inhibits α-amylase and α-glucosidase activity in vitro and in diabetic rats. Food and Function, 8 (3). pp. 1124-1131.

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Abstract

Intestinal and pancreatic α-amylase and α-glucosidase inhibitors offer an approach to lower the levels of post-prandial hyperglycemia through the control of dietary starch breakdown in digestion. This study hypothesized that lactucaxanthin (Lxn) in lettuce (Lactuca sativa) inhibits the activity of α-amylase and α-glucosidase. In this study, the interaction of Lxn with α-amylase and α-glucosidase in silico and its inhibitory effect on these enzymes were studied using in vitro and STZ-induced diabetic rat models. Lxn was isolated from lettuce with 96% purity confirmed by HPLC and LCMS. The in silico analysis showed that Lxn has a lower binding energy (-6.05 and -6.34 kcal mol-1) with α-amylase and α-glucosidase compared to their synthetic inhibitors, acarbose (-0.21 kcal mol-1) and miglitol (-2.78 kcal mol-1), respectively. In vitro α-amylase and α-glucosidase inhibition assays revealed that Lxn had IC50 values of 435.5 μg mL-1 and 1.84 mg mL-1, but acarbose has values of 2.5 and 16.19 μg mL-1. The in vivo results showed an increased activity for α-amylase and α-glucosidase in the intestine (4.7 and 1.30 fold, p < 0.05) and pancreas (1.3 and 1.48 fold, p < 0.05) of STZ induced diabetic rats compared to normal rats. Whereas the activity decreased (p < 0.05) in the Lxn fed diabetic rats, except for the intestinal α-glucosidase activity (1.69 ± 0.12 PNP per min per mg protein). This was confirmed by the low blood glucose level (239.4 ± 18.2 mg dL-1) in diabetic rats fed Lxn compared to the diabetic group (572.2 ± 30.5 mg dL-1, p < 0.05). Lxn significantly inhibited (p < 0.05) the activity of α-amylase and α-glucosidase and could be of medical and nutritional relevance in the treatment of diabetes.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	lactucaxanthin, lettuce, Lactuca sativa, α-amylase, α-glucosidase
Subjects:	500 Natural Sciences and Mathematics > 04 Chemistry and Allied Sciences > 14 Carotenoid Chemistry 600 Technology > 01 Medical sciences > 04 Diabetes Mellitus 600 Technology > 08 Food technology > 23 Vegetables
Divisions:	Dept. of Biochemistry Grain Science and Technology Molecular Nutrition
Depositing User:	Food Sci. & Technol. Information Services
Date Deposited:	11 Jan 2018 03:54
Last Modified:	11 Jan 2018 03:54
URI:	http://ir.cftri.res.in/id/eprint/13277

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