Bioactive Peptides from Libraries

Bioactive Peptides

The increased consumer awareness of the health promoting effects of functional foods and nutraceuticals is the driving force of the functional food and nutraceutical market. Bioactive peptides are known for their high tissue affinity, specificity and efficiency in promoting health. For this reason, the search for food-derived bioactive peptides has increased exponentially. Over the years, many ...

Bioactive Peptides from Marine Sources-A Review

--Marine organisms represent a valuable source of new compounds. The biodiversity of the marine environment and the associated chemical diversity constitute a practically unlimited resource of new active substances in the field of the development of bioactive products. In this paper, the molecular diversity of different marine peptides is described as well as information about their biological ...

Screening of Bioactive peptides from marine microbes

Identifying reactive peptides from phage-displayed libraries.

Phage display enables the synthesis, selection, and screening of large, polypeptide libraries (>1 × 10(10) different members). Selections from such libraries can identify binding partners to essentially any desired target (Sarikaya et al., Annu Rev Mater Res 34:373-408, 2004; Deutscher, Chem Rev 110:3196-3211, 2010). Peptides with affinity or reactivity to small molecule probes are attractive f...

Bioactive Peptides: A Review

Bioactive peptides have been defined as specific protein fragments that have a positive impact on body functions and conditions and may ultimately influence health [79]. According to Fitzgerald & Murray [46], bioactive peptides have been defined as peptides with hormoneor drug like activity that eventually modulate physiological function through binding interactions to specific receptors on tar...