INFOGEST inter-laboratory recommendations for assaying gastric and pancreatic lipases activities prior to in vitro digestion studies
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2021

In vitro digestion studies often use animal digestive enzyme extracts as substitutes of human gastric and pancreatic secretions. Pancreatin from porcine origin is thus commonly used to provide relevant pancreatic enzymes such as proteases, amylase and lipase. Rabbit gastric extracts (RGE) have been recently introduced to provide gastric lipase in addition to pepsin. Before preparing simulated gastric and pancreatic extracts with targeted enzyme activities as described in in vitro digestion protocols, it is important to determine the activities of enzyme preparations using validated methods. The purpose of this inter-laboratory study within the INFOGEST network was to test the repeatability and reproducibility of lipase assays using the pH-stat technique for measuring the activities of gastric and pancreatic lipases from various sources. Twenty-one laboratories having different pH-stat devices received the same protocol with identical batches of RGE and two pancreatin sources. Lipase assays were performed using tributyrin as a substrate and three different amounts (50, 100 and 200 µg) of each enzyme preparation. The repeatability results within individual laboratories were satisfactory with coefficients of variation (CVs) ranging from 4 to 8% regardless of the enzyme amount tested. However, the inter-laboratory variability was high (CV > 15%) compared to existing standards for bioanalytical assays. We identified and weighted the contributions to inter-laboratory variability of several parameters associated with the various pH-stat equipment used in this study (e.g. reaction vessel volume and shape, stirring mode and rate, burette volume for the automated delivery of sodium hydroxide). Based on this, we established recommendations for improving the reproducibility of lipase assays using the pH-stat technique. Defining accurate and complete recommendations on how to correctly quantify activity levels of enzyme preparations is a gateway to promising comparison of in vitro data obtained from different laboratories following the same in vitro digestion protocol.

Enzyme activity

Inhibitor

Lipolysis

Lipases

INFOGEST

Titration method

Författare

Myriam M.L. Grundy

Physiologie, Environnement et Génétique pour l'Animal et les Systèmes d'Elevage (PEGASE)

Evan Abrahamse

Nutricia Research

Wageningen University and Research

Annette Almgren

Chalmers, Biologi och bioteknik, Livsmedelsvetenskap

Marie Alminger

Chalmers, Biologi och bioteknik

Ana Andres

Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (UPV)

Renata M.C. Ariëns

Wageningen University and Research

Shanna Bastiaan-Net

Wageningen University and Research

Claire Bourlieu-Lacanal

Université de Montpellier

Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (INRAE)

A. Brodkorb

Moorepark Food Research Centre

Maria Bronze

Universidade de Lisboa

Universidade NOVA de Lisboa

Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnologica

Irene Comi

Norges miljø- og biovitenskapelige universitet

Leslie Couëdelo

Université de Bordeaux

D. Dupont

Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (INRAE)

Annie Durand

Centre Hospitalier Lyon-Sud

Sedef N. El

Ege Universitesi

Tara Grauwet

KU Leuven

Christine Heerup

Köpenhamns universitet

Ana Heredia

Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (UPV)

Marcos R. Infantes Garcia

KU Leuven

Christian Jungnickel

Politechnika Gdańska

Ilona E. Kłosowska-Chomiczewska

Politechnika Gdańska

Marion Létisse

Centre Hospitalier Lyon-Sud

A. Macierzanka

Politechnika Gdańska

A. Mackie

University of Leeds

D. J. McClements

University of Massachusetts

O. Menard

Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (INRAE)

Anne Meynier

Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (INRAE)

Marie Caroline Michalski

Centre Hospitalier Lyon-Sud

Ana Isabel Mulet-Cabero

Institute of Food Research

Moorepark Food Research Centre

Anette Mullertz

Köpenhamns universitet

Francina M. Payeras Perelló

Fresenius Kabi AG

Irene Peinado

Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (UPV)

Mélina Robert

Université de Montpellier

Sébastien Secouard

Fresenius Kabi AG

Ana T. Serra

Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnologica

Universidade NOVA de Lisboa

Sandra D. Silva

Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnologica

Gabriel Thomassen

Wageningen University and Research

Cecilia Tullberg

Chalmers, Biologi och bioteknik, Livsmedelsvetenskap

Ingrid Undeland

Chalmers, Biologi och bioteknik, Livsmedelsvetenskap

Carole Vaysse

Université de Bordeaux

G. E. Vegarud

Norges miljø- og biovitenskapelige universitet

Sarah H.E. Verkempinck

KU Leuven

Michelle Viau

Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (INRAE)

Mostafa Zahir

Wageningen University and Research

Ruojie Zhang

University of Massachusetts

F. Carriere

Aix-Marseille Université

Journal of Functional Foods

1756-4646 (ISSN)

Vol. 82 104497

Ämneskategorier (SSIF 2011)

Biokemi och molekylärbiologi

Analytisk kemi

Annan veterinärmedicin

DOI

10.1016/j.jff.2021.104497

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