Author(s)

Wei Tan ¹, Genna Ba ¹, Yanjun Xia ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group Co., Ltd., Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, 010080, China

Corresponding Author

Wei Tan

ABSTRACT

Lactoferrin is a natural iron-binding glycoprotein widely distributed in mammalian whey and most biological fluids. Lactoferrin ingested by the human body is hydrolysed by proteases and is mainly digested and absorbed in the form of peptides, thus exerting its physiological functions. In recent years, domestic and foreign studies have reported a variety of lactoferrin bioactive peptides with broad-spectrum antimicrobial, antitumour, antihypertensive, anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory functions, which have the dual effects of regulating the physiological functions of the organism and providing nutrients to the organism, and thus play an important role in human health. This paper mainly reviews the structure of lactoferrin as well as the types, structures and their mechanisms of action of lactoferrin bioactive peptides, and discusses their application studies in contributing to bone activity, with a view to providing theoretical references for the study of lactoferrin-derived bioactive peptides and the development of related functional dairy products.

KEYWORDS

Lactoferrin; molecular structure; bioactive peptide

CITE THIS PAPER

Wei Tan, Genna Ba, Yanjun Xia, Progress in the study of the molecular structure of lactoferrin and its bioactive peptides. Advances in Food Science and Human Nutrition (2024) Vol.6: 52-59. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/afshn.2024.060108.

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