Abstract
A peptic-tryptic-cotazym (PTC) digest of a crude wheat gliadin preparation was obtained under experimental conditions simulating in vivo protein digestion and then fractionated into 10 peaks by ion-exchange chromatography. PTC-gliadin digest and one of its subfractions (coded as fraction 9 according to its elution pattern) were very active in inhibiting in vitro development and morphogenesis of small intestine from 17- and 18-day-old rat fetuses, whereas they were harmless for the culture of jejunum from 21-day-old fetuses. PTC-digest also induced extensive tissue degeneration and necrosis of in vitro cultured small intestinal mucosa from patients with active celiac disease (gluten-induced entheropathy), but did not cause any detectable effect on histologically normal human small intestinal mucosa. Some wheat albumin and gliadin fractions were also tested on in vitro developing small intestine from 17-day-old rat fetus. Among all the tested protein fractions, only one gliadin fraction (coded as alpha 10-gliadin from its gel electrophoretic mobility) exhibited a toxic effect; morphologic alterations induced by alpha 10-gliadin were similar to those induced by PTC-digest and fraction 9.
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