| Literature DB >> 14209911 |
M MESSER, C M ANDERSON, L HUBBARD.
Abstract
The toxic action of wheat gluten on two patients was eliminated after predigestion of gluten by crude papain. This change is thought to be due to an enzyme which liberates ammonia from gluten. It is not thought that this particular mechanism operates in the normal intestinal cell but it is envisaged that one of the peptide bonds of the coeliac active constituent (possibly a N-glutaminyl peptide) is normally split by a specific intestinal peptidase which is defective in coeliac patients.Entities:
Keywords: AMINO ACIDS; AMMONIA; BODY WEIGHT; CELIAC DISEASE; CHILD; DIGESTION; FECES; GLUTEN; INFANT; PAPAIN; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; PEPTIDES; PYRROLIDINONES; TOXICOLOGIC REPORT; WHEAT
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Year: 1964 PMID: 14209911 PMCID: PMC1413471 DOI: 10.1136/gut.5.4.295
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Gut ISSN: 0017-5749 Impact factor: 23.059