Application Of Peptides

It is mainly divided into medical peptide drugs, peptide antibiotics, vaccines, agricultural antimicrobial peptides, feed peptides, daily chemical cosmetics, food soy peptides, corn peptides, yeast peptides, and sea cucumber peptides.
From a functional perspective, it can be divided into antihypertensive peptides, antioxidant peptides, cholesterol lowering peptides, opioid active peptides, high F-value oligopeptides, food flavor enhancing peptides, and so on.
Active peptides are closely related to nutrition, hormones, enzyme inhibition, immune regulation, antibacterial, antiviral, and antioxidant properties. Peptides are generally divided into peptide drugs and peptide health products. Traditional peptide drugs are mainly peptide hormones, and the development of peptide drugs has developed into various fields of disease prevention and treatment, especially in the following areas where it is developing rapidly. [2]
Anti-tumor peptide
The occurrence of tumors is the result of multiple factors, but ultimately involves the regulation of oncogene expression. In 2013, many genes related to tumors and regulatory factors that affect tumors were discovered. Screening peptides that specifically bind to these genes and regulatory factors has become a new hotspot in the search for anti-cancer drugs. Somatostatin has been used to treat endocrine tumors in the digestive system; American scholars have discovered a hexapeptide that can significantly inhibit adenocarcinoma in the body; Swiss scientists have discovered an octapeptide that can induce apoptosis in tumor cells.