Human intestinal mucus proteins isolated by transanal irrigation and proctosigmoidoscopy

Autor: Paola Andrea Gómez Buitrago, Carlos Augusto González Correa, Mario Santacoloma Osorio, Gonzalo Taborda Ocampo, Marco Aurelio Zezzi Arruda
Jazyk: English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />Portuguese
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: Revista Colombiana de Química, Vol 43, Iss 3, Pp 5-10 (2014)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 0120-2804
2357-3791
DOI: 10.15446/rev.colomb.quim.v43n3.53586
Popis: Human intestinal mucus essentially consists of a network of Mucin2 glycoproteins embedded in many lower molecular weight proteins. This paper contributes to the proteomic study of human intestinal mucus by comparing two sample collection methods (transanal irrigation and brush cytology during proctosigmoidoscopy) and analysis techniques (electrophoresis and digestion in solution). The entire sample collection and treatment process is explained, including protein extraction, digestion and desalination and peptide characterisation using a nanoAcquity UPLC chromatograph coupled to an HDMS spectrometer equipped with a nanoESI source. Collecting mucus via transanal irrigation provided a larger sample volume and protein concentration from a single patient. The proctosigmoidoscopy sample could be analysed via digestion in solution after depleting albumin. The analysis indicates that a simple mucus lysis method can evaluate the electrophoresis and digestion in solution techniques. Studying human intestinal mucus complexes is important because they perform two essential survival functions for humans as the first biochemical and physical defences for the gastrointestinal tract and a habitat for intestinal microbiota, which are primarily hosted in the colon and exceeds the human genetic information and cell number 100- and 10-fold (1).
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