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  2. Nanospheres loaded with curcumin promote gut epithelial motility through F-actin-related migration signaling events

Nanospheres loaded with curcumin promote gut epithelial motility through F-actin-related migration signaling events

  • J Nutr Biochem. 2021 Feb;88:108555. doi: 10.1016/j.jnutbio.2020.108555.
Ji-Yun Kim 1 Taesun Min 2 Sei-Jung Lee 3
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 Department of Pharmaceutical Engineering, Daegu Haany University, Gyeongsan, Republic of Korea.
  • 2 Department of Animal Biotechnology, Faculty of Biotechnology, SARI, Jeju National University, Jeju, Republic of Korea.
  • 3 Department of Pharmaceutical Engineering, Daegu Haany University, Gyeongsan, Republic of Korea. Electronic address: sjlee@dhu.ac.kr.
Abstract

Curcumin, a hydrophobic polyphenol of turmeric, has a variety of biological functions as an herbal supplement, but its poor gastric absorption rate is one of the major factors limiting its oral bioavailability. In the present study, we investigated the functional role of nanospheres loaded with curcumin (nCur) with regard to the motility of gut epithelial HCT116 cells and enterocyte migration along the crypt-villus axis. nCur significantly increased the motility of HCT116 cells and showed much higher migration efficacy than the curcumin. nCur stimulated the small GTPases Rac1 and the phosphorylation of protein kinase C, responsible for the distinctive activation of the mitogen-activated protein kinases. Interestingly, nCur significantly induced the expression of α-actinin, profilin-1, and filamentous (F)-actin as regulated by the phosphorylation of nuclear factor-kappa B during its promotion of cell migration. In mouse models of gut epithelial migration, treatment with nCur had an enhancing effect on the movement of enterocytes along the crypt-villus axis and the expression of cytoskeletal reorganization-related factors. These results indicate that nCur is a functional agent that promotes gut epithelial motility through F-actin-related migration signaling events.

Keywords

Cell migration; Curcumin nanospheres; Filamentous-actin; Gastrointestinal epithelial cells; Nuclear factor-kappa B.

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