ABSTRACT
Schizophyllum commune is a fungus with applications both in medicine and foods, which produces IPS and EPS. However, there is no comparative study on the activity comparison of IPS and EPS and its mechanism of antioxidant effect. In this study, the antioxidant activities of the two polysaccharides were measured in biochemical, cellular and molecular levels, and H2O2 induced oxidative damage model of HSFs was established to explore the protective effects of EPS and IPS. We found IPS and EPS both achieved a good antioxidant effect. They can also improve the cellular levels of SOD and reduce MDA. Insights regarding the molecular mechanism were studied, we found that both EPS and IPS could increase the expression of Nrf2 in Keap1-Nrf2/ARE signaling pathway. At the same time, they could inhibit the expression of the negative feedback gene Keap1 and promote the expression of downstream gene GCLC, Gstt-1, Nqo1 and Ho-1.
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Author contributions
JCZ, CTW, and QA provided concepts and designed experiments; WJC, YDY, LYL, and TH conducted experiments; FQD, DZ, XQS, and ML analysed data; WJC wrote the manuscript, JCZ, CTW read and commented on the first draft. All authors have read and approved the final manuscript.
Data availability statement
The data used and/or investigated during the present study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.