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Mechanistic Insights into Angiotensin I-Converting Enzyme Inhibitory Tripeptides to Decipher the Chemical Basis of Their Activity

[Image: see text] Food proteins are an important source of bioactive peptides, and the angiotensin I-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors are worthy of attention for their possible beneficial effects in subjects with mild hypertension. However, the chemical basis underpinning their activity is not wel...

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Autores principales: Lammi, Carmen, Boschin, Giovanna, Bartolomei, Martina, Arnoldi, Anna, Galaverna, Gianni, Dellafiora, Luca
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Chemical Society 2022
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9501895/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36074807
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jafc.2c04755
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Sumario:[Image: see text] Food proteins are an important source of bioactive peptides, and the angiotensin I-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors are worthy of attention for their possible beneficial effects in subjects with mild hypertension. However, the chemical basis underpinning their activity is not well-understood, hampering the discovery of novel inhibitory sequences from the plethora of peptides encrypted in food proteins. This work combined computational and in vitro investigations to describe precisely the chemical basis of potent inhibitory tripeptides. A substantial set of previously uncharacterized tripeptides have been investigated in silico and in vitro, and LCP was described for the first time as a potent ACE inhibitory peptide with IC(50) values of 8.25 and 6.95 μM in cell-free and cell-based assays, respectively. The outcomes presented could serve to better understand the chemical basis of already characterized potent inhibitory tripeptides or as a blueprint to design novel and potent inhibitory peptides and peptide-like molecules.