• The Korean Journal of Physiology
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.259-272
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• 1988

Type I allergic reaction and it's related clinical manifestations are known to occur by the effects of various chemical mediators. These chemical mediators are released from circulating basophils and tissue mast cells, which become 'sensitized' through the binding of antigens and antibodies of the IgE type to their cell surface receptors. Efforts to elucidate the mechanism of the release of these mediators, especially that of histamine, have been persued for years. The mechanism is not yet clarified at the present time. Recent reports of hyaluronidase, an enzyme known to be involved in the tissue inflammatory process, as possible participant in type I allergic reaction, initiated this study. Relationships between the hyaluronidase activity and histamine release from the sensitized rat peritoneal mast cells were investigated. Also anti-allergic agents, tranilast and disodium cromoglycate, along with known histamine releasers, morphine and compound 48/80, were used to observe the inhibitory and stimulatory effects of these substances on the hyaluronidase activity as well as histamine release from the rat mast cells. The results obtained are summarized as follows: 1) Hyaluronidase activity and histamine release from sensitiaed rat peritoneal mast cells started to increase on the 4th day of postsensitization. Hyaluronidase activity reached it's peak value on the 7th day of postsensitization and that of histamine release on the 14th day of postsensitization. 2) Hyaluronidase activity and histamine release from sensitized rat peritoneal mast cells, pre-treated with tranilast revealed significant decrease in comparison with those of non-treated cells. 3) Hyaluronidase activity and histamine release from sensitized rat peritoneal mast cells, pre-treated with tranilast, followed by morphine injection, revealed significant increase in comparison with those of tranilast treated cells. 4) In vitro study of hyaluronidase activity and histamine release from un-sensitized rat peritoneal mast cells, using morphine and compound 48/80 as activators, revealed significant increase compared to those of non-activator used cells. 5) In vitro study of hyaluronidase activity and histamine release from un-sensitized rat peritoneal mast cells, pre-treated with tranilast and disodium cromoglycate, using confound 48/80 and morphine as activators revealed significant decrease in comparison with those of tranilast and disodium cromoglycate treated cells. From above results, participation of enzyme hyaluronidase in the process of histamine release from sensitized rat pertioneal mast cells, could be suggested. It was also quite evident that the clinically used anti-allergic agents, tranilast and disodium cromoglycate, have significant inhibitory function on the hyaluronidase activity and histamine release from sensitized rat peritoneal mast cells, while morphine significantly increased the hyaluronidase activity and histamine release from sensitized rat peritoneal mast cells.

• Korean Journal of Pharmacognosy
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• v.42 no.1
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• pp.89-97
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• 2011

This study was conducted to investigate tyrosinase inhibitory effect, hyaluronidase inhibitory effect and antioxidant activity by DPPH radical scavenging method on the MeOH extract of 50 species medicinal plant for screening of functional properties. As a result, Chaenomeles sinensis Koehne extract among 50 species medicinal plant turned out to be having tyrosinase, hyaluronidase inhibitory effect and antioxidant activity. The major component of tyrosinase and hyaluronidase inhibitory effect was isolated from EtOAc extract of Chaenomeles sinensis Koehne. And the component of antioxidant activity was isolated from n-BuOH extract of Chaenomeles sinensis Koehne. Their structure of compounds were identified as oleanolic acid and (-)-epicatechin by spectroscopic evidence, respectively.

• Korean Journal of Pharmacognosy
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• v.35 no.3 s.138
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• pp.184-188
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• 2004

This study was carried out to evaluate glutathione S-transferase (GST) activity and hyaluronidase inhibitory effect of medicinal plants. The EtOH extracts of 20 species plants were tested. As the result, Acorus gramineus and Pueraria lobata exhibited GST activity. On the continuous experiment, the n-BuOH fraction of Acorus gramineus and the $H_2O$ fraction of Pueraria lobata showed the elevation of GST activity. On the experiment of hyaluronidase inhibitory effect, Acorus gramineus exhibited a potent inhibitory activity. These results suggest that the extract of Acorus gramineus can be applicable for the development of a new anti-inflammatory agent.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.46 no.4
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• pp.764-768
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• 2008

Bovine testicular hyaluronidase PH-20 was cloned into pPIC9 vector and expressed in Pichia pastoris. Recombinant PH-20 was 75 kDa MW and 7460 units/L activity. Extracellular hyaluronidase activity was two times higher than that of intracellular activity. Non-buffered medium and $30^{\circ}C$ cultivation was favorable for PH-20 production. 1M sorbitol as an osmotic pressure and 0.3% methanol inducer increased cell growth and enzyme activity. 0.4 M arginine augmentation decreased the proteolytic degradation of recombinant hyaluronidase.

• 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2003.04a
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• pp.663-665
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• 2003

For the screening of anti-inflammation and antioxidative activities, ethanolic extract of 40 species of traditional herbal medicines were examined in vitro their hyaluronidase inhibitory effect and radical scavenging activity. Astragali Radix, Eucommia Cortex, Schizandrae Fructus, Scutellaria Radix and Moutan Radicis Coritex showed more than 50% hyaluronidase inhibitory effects. Moutan Radicis Cortex, Paeoniae Radix Alba, Plantaginis Semen and Sorbus commixta Hedl. showed more than 90% in electron donating activity. The scavenging effects of ethanolic extracts on hydroxyl radical showed significantly activity.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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• v.34 no.8
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• pp.1119-1123
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• 2005

The inhibitory effects of water and methanol extracts of Doenjang, Chungkookjang and Miso on bovine hyaluronidase were examined. The extracts were vacuum-dried and the resulting pellets were dissolved with 0.1 M acetate buffer with 1$\%$ DMSO to a final concentration of 50 mg/mL. The water extracts of Doenjang, Chungkookjang and Miso inhibited 62$\%$, 70$\% $, 56$\%$ of hyaluronidase activity, respectively, while the extract of crushed soybean inhibited 24$\%$ of the activity. Under the same condition, disodiumcromoglycate known as an anti-allergic drug inhibited 46$\%$ of hyaluronidase activity at the concentration of 0.35 mg/mL as a positive control. Also the methanol extracts of Doenjang, Chungkookjang and Miso inhibited 48$\%$, 52$\%$, 70$\%$ of hvaluronidase activity, respectively, while the extract of crushed soybean inhibited 46$\%$ of the activity. After heat treatment of the water extracts of Doenjang, Chungkookjang and Miso at 100"C for 10 min, hyaluronidase inhibitory effects of them were reduced approximately to half. However, hyaluronidase inhibitory effects of methanol extracts were maintained well even after heat treatment.

• Korean Journal of Pharmacognosy
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.169-172
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• 1998

Hyaluronidase is one of the mucopolysaccharide-splitting enzyme and is related to the permeability of the vascular system and inflammation. An anti-hyaluronidase assay guided fractionation of the methanolic extract of Uncariae Ramulus et Uncus has furnished a pentacyclic triterpene, ursolic acid (compound I). Compound I exhibited hyaluronidase inhibitory activity with $IC_{50}$ value of 0.15 mM, and disodium cromoglycate showed the inhibitory activity with $IC_{50}$ value of 1.78 mM as a positive control.

• Korean Journal of Pharmacognosy
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.265-272
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• 1995

Inhibitory effects of 130 medicinal plants on hyaluronidase activity were analyzed. The medicinal plants are clinically used as herbal medicines for korean traditional prescriptions. Six out of the 130 herbal medicines exhibited more than 50% of inhibition on hyaluronidase activity by their total methanol extracts with 5mg/ml as a final concentration. The active total methanol extracts were prepared from cortex of Acantbopanax gracilistylus, lignum of Caesalpinia sappan, radix of Glycyrrhiza uralensis, radicis cortex of Morus alba, herba of Prunella vulgaris, and radix of Sanguisorba officinalis. These active total methanol extracts were sequentially fractionated with dichloromethane, ethyl acetate, n-butanol, and then water. Among the solvent-fractionated extracts, the butanol fractions of Acantbopanax gracilistylus and Glycyrrhiza uralensis with 1 mg/ml as the final concentration exhibited more than 50% of inhibition on hyaluronidase activity, and the other fractions with the same concentration did less than 20% of inhibition.

• Korean Journal of Pharmacognosy
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• v.28 no.3
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• pp.131-137
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• 1997

The aqueous and methanolic extracts of 110 crude drugs were screened for hyaluronidase inhibitory activity using a microplate assay. Among them, MeOH extract of 15 crude drugs inhibited more than 80% of hyauluronidase activity at the concentration of 5mg/ml. The active principles of Anemarrhenae Rhizoma, Rhei Rhizoma, Ephedrae Herba, Pteropi Faeces and Ginseng Radix alba were transferred into organic solvents.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• v.28 no.9
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• pp.1547-1553
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• 2018

Hyaluronidases are a family of enzymes that catalyse the breakdown of hyaluronic acid, which is abundant in the extracellular matrix and cumulus oocyte complex. To investigate the activity of recombinant bovine sperm hyaluronidase 1 (SPAM1) and determine the effect of the Asn-X-Ser/Thr motif on its activity, the bovine SPAM1 open reading frame was cloned into the mammalian expression vector pCXN2 and then transfected to the HEK293 cell line. Expression of recombinant bovine hyaluronidase was estimated using a hyaluronidase activity assay with gel electrophoresis. Recombinant hyaluronidase could resolve highly polymeric hyaluronic acid and also caused dispersal of the cumulus cell layer. Comparative analysis with respect to enzyme activity was carried out for the glycosylated and deglycosylated bovine sperm hyaluronidase by N-glycosidase F treatment. Finally, mutagenesis analysis revealed that among the five potential N-linked glycosylation sites, only three contributed to significant inhibition of hyaluronic activity. Recombinant bovine SPAM1 has hyaluronan degradation and cumulus oocyte complex dispersion ability, and the N-linked oligosaccharides are important for enzyme activity, providing a foundation for the commercialization of hyaluronidase.