In Vitro Antitumor Activities of Low Molecular Sea Cucumber Stichopus japonicus Peptides Sequentially Hydrolyzed by Proteases

摘要

The sea cucumber (Stichopus japonicus) was continuously hydrolyzed by pepsin, trypsin to get sea cucumber peptides (SCP), and low molecular peptides (LSCP), MW < 3000 Da, were collected through an ultrafiltration membrane with a molecular weight cut-off of 3000 Da Two main fractions, LSCP-1 and LSCP-2 were obtained by one step gel filtration column chromatography. Furthermore, the antitumor activities, in vitro, of LSCP-1 and LSCP-2 fractions were evaluated by MTT (3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyl tetrazolium bromide) assay. LSCP-2 showed significantly antitumor activity against the SGC-7901 and MCF-7 cell lines, LSCP-1 showed significantly antitumor activity only against SGC-7901 cell line, and two fractions did not show activity against A549 cell line. Overall, this study indicated that LSCP posseses potential to treat gastric cancer and breast cancer.