The immunomodulatory effects of the four extracellular polysaccharides, namely WPA, WPB, AP2A, and TP1A, which were isolated from the fermented broth of Aspergillus aculeatus, A. terreus and Trichoderma sp. KK19L1, were investigated in vitro. WPA, WPB, AP2A, and TP1A were not toxic to RAW264.7 cells. These polysaccharides enhanced cell viability. WPA, WPB, AP2A, and TP1A showed increased immunomodulatory effect by strengthening the phagocytic activity and enhancing the release of NO, TNF-α and IL-6 from RAW264.7 cells. WPA, WPB, AP2A, and TP1A exhibited different immunomodulatory activity in vitro due to their different structural characterizations, and their immunoregulatory effects decreased successively in the following order: WPA, WPB, AP2A, and TP1A. The extracellular polysaccharides WPA, WPB, AP2A, and TP1A had potent immunomodulatory effects and could be used as potential immunomodulatory agents in the fields of functional food and medicine.
extracellular polysaccharide, immunomodulatory activity, Structural characterization, fungus
NCBI PubMed ID: 32860795Publication DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2020.08.189Journal NLM ID: 7909578Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Correspondence: yangxihong63@163.com
Institutions: College of Marine Science and Biological Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Shandong, China, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Biochemical Engineering, Shandong, China, Qingdao Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shandong, China, College of Electromechanical Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Shandong, China
Methods: 13C NMR, 1H NMR, ELISA, biological assays, ion-exchange chromatography, extraction, optical rotation measurement, cell growth, determination of NO production, precipitation, SEM, Congo Red assay