IEC-6 cells were plated into 96-well plates (2 × 103 cells/well) and treated with the peptides in inflammatory conditions, as previously described, for 24 h in order to evaluate COX-2, iNOS, HO-1, and SOD expression and nitrotyrosine formation. For this analysis, the cells were collected and washed with phosphate-buffered saline (PBS). Fixing solution was added to cells for 20 min and then incubated in fix/perm solution for a further 30 min. Anti-COX-2 (BD Transduction Laboratories, Milan, Italy), anti-iNOS (BD Transduction Laboratories, Milan, Italy), anti-HO-1 (Santa Cruz Biotechnologies, Dallas, TX, USA), anti-SOD (Santa Cruz Biotechnologies, Dallas, TX, USA), and anti-nitrotyrosine (Merck Millipore, Milan, Italy) antibodies were then added for 1 h. The secondary antibody, in fixing solution, was added to the cells and cell fluorescence was then evaluated by a fluorescence-activated cell sorter (FACSscan; Becton Dickinson, Milan, Italy) and analyzed by Cell Quest software (version 4; Becton Dickinson, Milan, Italy) [35 (link)].
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