Abstract
Medium size (3000 d > Mw > 500 d) peptides from a hydrolysate of emptied stomachs from Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) were fractionated on an S-Sepharose cation exchange chromatography column. Four distinctly separated acid peptide fractions were used in in vitro stimulatory experiments with head kidney leucocytes from Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar). All four acid peptide fractions promoted strongly elevated oxidative burst reactions in the leucocytes after 2 and 7 days of incubation at concentrations from 1 to 25 μg/ml. The stimulation was equally good, and in most cases better than the stimulation achieved with similar concentrations of lipopolysaccharides from the fish pathogen Aeromonas salmonicida. Visual inspection and pictures of peptide stimulated cells showed strongly enhanced vacuolisation and formation of long stretched out pseudopodes after 7 days of incubation. Acid peptide fractions from fish protein hydrolysate may be useful as adjuvants in fish vaccine and as an immune stimulant in fish feed.
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