Journal
JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY
Volume 68, Issue 47, Pages 13982-13989Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.0c05064
Keywords
quercetin; angiotensin-converting enzyme 2; enzyme kinetics; polyphenols
Funding
- Guangzhou Elites Scholarship Council
- Fritz Friday Chair of Vegetable Processing Research
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Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) is a host receptor for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Inhibiting the interaction between the envelope spike glycoproteins (S-proteins) of SARS-CoV-2 and ACE2 is a potential antiviral therapeutic approach, but little is known about how dietary compounds interact with ACE2. The objective of this study was to determine if flavonoids and other polyphenols with B-ring 3',4'-hydroxylation inhibit recombinant human (rh)ACE2 activity. rhACE2 activity was assessed with the fluorogenic substrate Mca-APK(Dnp). Polyphenols reduced rhACE2 activity by 1566% at 10 mu M. Rutin, quercetin-3-O-glucoside, tamarixetin, and 3,4-dihydroxyphenylacetic acid inhibited rhACE2 activity by 42- 48%. Quercetin was the most potent rhACE2 inhibitor among the polyphenols tested, with an IC50 of 4.48 mu M. Thus, quercetin, its metabolites, and polyphenols with 3',4'-hydroxylation inhibited rhACE2 activity at physiologically relevant concentrations in vitro.
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