Youssef Ali Abou Hamin Neto
School of Pharmaceutical Science of Ribeirão Preto-USP, Brazil
Title: The relevance of the protease cleavage site in generation of bioactive peptides: In silico and in vitro approaches
Biography
Biography: Youssef Ali Abou Hamin Neto
Abstract
Introduction: Proteases are biocatalysts that hydrolyze polypeptides into peptides and/or amino acids. Each enzyme has specificity to substrate and cleavage site, these characteristics influence the product sequence and consequently the potential application. The proteases have been used to obtain peptides from food proteins, these products can present biological activities such as antioxidant, antitumor, antimicrobial and anti hypertensive and currently the main source of peptides are milk proteins.