What is it about?
Proteins and their break-down products possess various types of bioactivity. The article catalogues these activities and also provides information on methods used for these proteins/peptides to be identified.
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Why is it important?
Bioactive peptides will have increasingly powerful role to play in the future, in the absence of effective drugs for various diseases/conditions such as inflammation, diabetes, cancer or bacteria/fungal infections. These peptides can be consumed as dietary intake, without the side effects of drugs.
Perspectives
Bioactive peptides need to be investigated in larger studies involving local knowledge, traditional foods and assessing their effectiveness as well as understanding the molecular events involved in their activity.
Indira Sarethy
Jaypee Institute of Information Technology
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This page is a summary of: Plant Peptides: Bioactivity, Opportunities and Challenges, Protein and Peptide Letters, January 2017, Bentham Science Publishers,
DOI: 10.2174/0929866523666161220113632.
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