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Industrial-scale manufacturing of pharmaceutical-grade bioactive peptides.

Dominic Agyei, +1 more
- 01 May 2011 - 
- Vol. 29, Iss: 3, pp 272-277
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The plausibility of manufacturing pharmaceutical-grade bioactive peptides from food proteins; the challenges and some implementable strategies for overcoming those challenges are discussed.
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This article is published in Biotechnology Advances.The article was published on 2011-05-01. It has received 287 citations till now.

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Aptamers: an emerging class of bioaffinity ligands in bioactive peptide applications.

TL;DR: This review provides an overview of bioactive peptides and their essential structure–activity relationship and highlights on the types and methods of synthesis of aptamers before the discussion of the prospects, merits, and challenges in the use ofaptamers for bioaffinity interactions with bio active peptides.
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New Insights into the Antimicrobial Properties of Hydrolysates and Peptide Fractions Derived from Chia Seed (Salvia hispanica L.)

TL;DR: Results indicate that bioactive peptides obtained from chia seed proteins by microwave and enzymatic hydrolysis could be employed as antimicrobial agents in foods and therapeutic applications.
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Evaluation of cross-linked enzyme aggregates of Lactobacillus cell-envelope proteinases, for protein degradation

TL;DR: In this paper, cross-linked enzyme aggregates (CLEAs) have been prepared from cell-envelope proteinases (CEPs) of Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. lactis 313 and their proteolytic properties have been evaluated using several food proteins.
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Recently isolated food-derived antihypertensive hydrolysates and peptides: A review

TL;DR: A review of the isolation of concomitant proteins in foods, their hydrolysis into peptides and the biofunctionality checks of those peptides based on their anti-hypertensive potentialities points researchers in the direction of adopting food materials and associated by-products as natural sources for the isolation biologically active peptides.
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Antimicrobial and host-defense peptides as new anti-infective therapeutic strategies.

TL;DR: The role of cationic host-defense peptides in modulating the innate immune response and boosting infection-resolving immunity while dampening potentially harmful pro-inflammatory (septic) responses gives these peptides the potential to become an entirely new therapeutic approach against bacterial infections.
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Bioactive peptides: Production and functionality

TL;DR: A variety of naturally formed bioactive peptides have been found in fermented dairy products, such as yoghurt, sour milk and cheese as mentioned in this paper, but the health benefits attributed to peptides in these traditional products have, so far, not been established, however.
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Food-derived peptides with biological activity: from research to food applications.

TL;DR: Several products are already on the market or under development by food companies that exploit the potential of food-derived bioactive peptides and which ascribe scientifically evidenced health claims to consumption of these functional foods.
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Development and biological activities of marine-derived bioactive peptides: A review

TL;DR: An overview of the bioactive peptides derived from marine organisms and their biological activities with potential applications in different areas is presented.
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Bioactive peptides and proteins from foods: indication for health effects.

TL;DR: There is evidence for the antihypertensive effects of milk products fermented with Lactobacillus helveticus containing the tripeptides IPP and VPP, which inhibit angiotensin converting enzyme, and for osteoprotective effects by milk basic protein.
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