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Identification of the Major Protein Components of Human and Cow Saliva
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- Akula, Srinivas (author)
- Uppsala University,Uppsala universitet,Mikrobiologi och immunologi
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- Welinder, Charlotte (author)
- Lund University,Lunds universitet,Masspektrometri,Sektion V,Institutionen för kliniska vetenskaper, Lund,Medicinska fakulteten,Mass Spectrometry,Section V,Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund,Faculty of Medicine
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- Fu, Zhirong (author)
- Uppsala University,Uppsala universitet,Mikrobiologi och immunologi
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- Olsson, Anna-Karin (author)
- Uppsala University,Uppsala universitet,Institutionen för medicinsk biokemi och mikrobiologi
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- Hellman, Lars (author)
- Uppsala University,Uppsala universitet,Mikrobiologi och immunologi
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- MDPI, 2023
- 2023
- English.
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In: International Journal of Molecular Sciences. - : MDPI. - 1661-6596 .- 1422-0067. ; 24:23
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- Cows produce saliva in very large quantities to lubricate and facilitate food processing. Estimates indicate an amount of 50-150 L per day. Human saliva has previously been found to contain numerous antibacterial components, such as lysozyme, histatins, members of the S-100 family and lactoferrin, to limit pathogen colonization. Cows depend on a complex microbial community in their digestive system for food digestion. Our aim here was to analyze how this would influence the content of their saliva. We therefore sampled saliva from five humans and both nose secretions and saliva from six cows and separated the saliva on SDS-PAGE gradient gels and analyzed the major protein bands with LC-MS/MS. The cow saliva was found to be dominated by a few major proteins only, carbonic anhydrase 6, a pH-stabilizing enzyme and the short palate, lung and nasal epithelium carcinoma-associated protein 2A (SPLUNC2A), also named bovine salivary protein 30 kDa (BSP30) or BPIFA2B. This latter protein has been proposed to play a role in local antibacterial response by binding bacterial lipopolysaccharides (LPSs) and inhibiting bacterial growth but may instead, according to more recent data, primarily have surfactant activity. Numerous peptide fragments of mucin-5B were also detected in different regions of the gel in the MS analysis. Interestingly, no major band on gel was detected representing any of the antibacterial proteins, indicating that cows may produce them at very low levels that do not harm the microbial flora of their digestive system. The nose secretions of the cows primarily contained the odorant protein, a protein thought to be involved in enhancing the sense of smell of the olfactory receptors and the possibility of quickly sensing potential poisonous food components. High levels of secretory IgA were also found in one sample of cow mouth drippings, indicating a strong upregulation during an infection. The human saliva was more complex, containing secretory IgA, amylase, carbonic anhydrase 6, lysozyme, histatins and a number of other less abundant proteins, indicating a major difference to the saliva of cows that show very low levels of antibacterial components, most likely to not harm the microbial flora of the rumen.
Subject headings
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Biologi -- Biokemi och molekylärbiologi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Biological Sciences -- Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- saliva
- IgA
- BSP30
- PIGR
- odorant protein
- mucin
- BSP30
- IgA
- mucin
- odorant protein
- PIGR
- saliva
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- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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