Abstract:The aim of this study was to investigate the anti-oxidative effects of WNWAD, WNW, WAD, WN and AD against the oxidative stress induced by H2O2 in HEK-293 cells, including ORAC, GSH and GSSG levels and the effects on gene expressions and activity of γ-GCS. Oxygen radical absorbance capacity(ORAC) results showed that 5.0 μmol/L WNWAD, WAD, WNW and WN had different oxygen radical absorption capacities in vitro but AD. Then, on the base of oxidative stress model of HEK-293cells, GSH and GSSG assay results indicated that HEK-293 cells induced by H2O2 decreased GSH level from (173.52 ± 2.87) μmol/L to (115.85 ± 2.03) μmol/L (P<0.01), and increased GSSG level from (0.90 ± 0.08) μmol/L to (33.23 ± 0.68) μmol/L (P<0.01). Egg white peptides (except AD) can obviously increase GSH level (P<0.05) and decrease GSSG lever(P<0.01), especially 0.5 μmol/L WNWAD decreased GSSG lever in HEK-293 cells from (33.23 ± 0.68) μmol/L to (0.96 ± 0.02) μmol/L (P<0.01) and increased GSH/GSSG ratio from 3.49 ± 0.68 to 174.22 ± 0.13 (P<0.01). In addition, peptides on the expression of γ-GCS mRNA result showed that the peptides improved the expression of γ-GCS. Among them, the highest expression of γ-GCS mRNA in the 5.0 μmol/L WN-treated cells was 8.53 ± 0.06. All the above results suggested that egg white peptides protected HEK-293 cells against H2O2-induced oxidative stress by absorbing ROS to decrease the consumption of GSH and inhibiting GSH/ GSSG ratio changed dramatically. Egg white peptides also can upregulate gene expressions of γ-GCS, which could make the synthesis of GSH increase to against H2O2-induced oxidative stress.