Fig. 7.

Probiotic yeast (strain I-6) isolated from miso suppressed the decrease of occludin protein expression in Caco-2 cells under interleukin-1β (IL-1β) treatment. Quantitative analysis of occludin protein in the IL-1β group, IL-1β+I-6 group and IL-1β+I-6 + neutralizing antibody group (anti-Dectin-1 and anti-Toll-like receptor 2 [TLR2]). The detected bands were quantified using ChemiDoc Touch, Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., CA, USA. The occludin expression in the IL-1β+I-6 group was assigned a value of 1, and results are expressed as means±SDs (n=6, 14, 8). *p<0.01 compared with the IL-1β+ I-6 group.