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MUCOSAL BIOLOGY

-Casomorphin-7 regulates the secretion and expression of gastrointestinal mucins through a µ-opioid pathway

¹INSERM, U45, Lyon, IFR62, University Claude Bernard Lyon I, Faculté de Médecine R. Laennec, Lyon; ²INRA, Neuro-Gastroentérologie et Nutrition, Toulouse, France; and ³Department of Neuropharmacology, Cajal Institute, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Madrid, Spain

Submitted 28 September 2005 ; accepted in final form 8 December 2005

We have recently shown that -casomorphin-7, a milk opioid peptide, strongly stimulates mucin secretion in the rat jejunum through a nervous pathway and opioid receptor activation. In this study, the hypothesis that -casomorphin-7 may also act directly on intestinal goblet cells was investigated in vitro in rat and human intestinal mucin-producing cells (DHE and HT29-MTX) using quantitative and semiquantitative RT-PCR and ELISA. The presence of µ-opioid receptors was demonstrated in rat goblet cells in the upper half of the colonic crypt and in the two cell lines by immunohistochemistry and RT-PCR. In rat DHE cells, -casomorphin-7 increased the expression of rat mucin (rMuc)2 and rMuc3 but not rMuc1, rMuc4, and rMuc5AC. This effect was time and dose dependent, with the maximum of increase in transcripts being noticed for a concentration of 10^–4 M after 2 h of stimulation for rMuc2 (225% of controls) and 4 h of stimulation for rMuc3 (208% of controls). Mucin secretion was maximally increased after 8 h of stimulation. Interestingly, these effects were prevented by pretreatment of the cells with the µ-opioid antagonist cyprodime. In human HT29-MTX cells, -casomorphin-7 (10^–4 M) also increased MUC5AC mRNA levels (219% after 24 h of stimulation) and the secretion of this mucin (169% of controls). In conclusion, -casomorphin-7 may contribute significantly to mucin production via a direct effect on intestinal goblet cells and the activation of µ-opioid receptors. Because intestinal mucins have a crucial mucosal protective function, dairy products containing -casomorphin-7 may improve intestinal protection and could have dietary and health applications.

rat mucin 2; rat mucin 3; mucin 5AC; mucus; milk bioactive peptides

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