Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) can produce a huge amount of bioactive compounds. Since their
elective habitat is food, especially dairy but also vegetal food, it is frequent to find bioactive …

Functionally and physiologically active peptides are produced from several food proteins
during gastrointestinal digestion and fermentation of food materials with lactic acid bacteria …

Achieving a satisfactory biochemical explanation for the opportunistic underwater adhesion
of marine invertebrates such as mussels and barnacles requires a detailed characterization …

The protein fraction of milk contains many valuable components and biologically active
substances. Moreover, milk proteins are precursors of many different biologically active …

Much research has been carried out on casein-derived bioactive peptides that are encrypted
within the primary structures of intact casein. Casein peptides are not active within the parent …

Bioactivities of peptides encrypted in major milk proteins are latent until they are released
and activated by enzymatic proteolysis. After a brief description of the properties of some …

Background Calcium is known as an essential nutrient in the human body. Insufficient
calcium uptake results in metabolic bone disease such as rickets in children and …

Casein phosphopeptides (CPP) stabilize amorphous calcium phosphate (ACP) and may be
used to localize ACP in dental plaque, maintaining a state of supersaturation with respect to …

Casein phosphopeptides (CPP) stabilize amorphous calcium phosphate (ACP) and may be
used to localize ACP in dental plaque, maintaining a state of supersaturation with respect to …

Osteoporosis is a major skeletal disease associated with estrogen deficiency in
postmenopausal women. Kefir-fermented peptides (KPs) are bioactive peptides with health …