Crypteins - An Overlooked Piece of Peptide Systems

Title:Crypteins - An Overlooked Piece of Peptide Systems

Volume: 16 Issue: 3

Author(s): Joanna Ner, Jolanta H. Kotlinska and Jerzy Silberring

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Keywords: Crypteins, peptides, neuropeptide precursors.

Abstract: Crypteins, the hidden bioactive sequences, play an important role in the modulation of various biological processes, such as neuronal signaling, angiogenesis, immune response, inflammatory response and cell growth. Proteolytic mechanism leading to the release of crypteins possessing novel biological activities is an important factor for increasing diversity of functional molecules and represents a potential new source of peptide drugs. In this work we would like to focus on crypteins derived from the already known precursors and their potential therapeutic value.

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Ner Joanna, H. Kotlinska Jolanta and Silberring Jerzy, Crypteins - An Overlooked Piece of Peptide Systems, Current Protein & Peptide Science 2015; 16 (3) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1389203716666150224125557

DOI https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1389203716666150224125557	Print ISSN 1389-2037
Publisher Name Bentham Science Publisher	Online ISSN 1875-5550