メリーランド薬科大学Alessio Fasano先生の一昨年の論文
「Zonulin and its regulation of intestinal barrier function.」ですが、「There are at least 50 toxic epitopes in
gluten peptides(略). These activities have been partially mapped to specific domains in
α-gliadin (
Fig. 13): the cytotoxic peptide 31-43, the immunomodulatory peptide 57-89 (33-mer), the CXCR3-binding zonulin-releasing (gut-permeating) peptides 111-130 and 151-170, and the interleukin (IL)-8-releasing peptide 261-277. 」とかサラッと。これらのうち「gut-permeating」が本論ですが、これだけ並ぶと絶句…しかも「it is resistant to the enzymatic degradation by gastric acidity and pancreatic and brush-border peptidases.」ですと!