Journal of Hypertension: Open Access

Melanie Martin

Publications

• Research Article
  Inhibitory Efficacy and Biological Variability of Tryptophan Containing Dipeptides on Human Plasma Angiotensin Converting Enzyme Activity
  Author(s): Sherif Khedr, Melanie Martin and Andreas DeussenSherif Khedr, Melanie Martin and Andreas Deussen
  
  Background: Hypertension remains a major unsolved health problem with life threatening consequences. A potential innovative prophylactic approach against its development may be supplementation of daily food with natural antihypertensive compounds. In our work we tested the efficacy of novel tryptophan containing dipeptides from whey protein with respect to their inhibitory potency on the angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) as well as their stability in human plasma. Methods: ACE activity from rabbit lung and human plasma as well as recombinant human ACE activity were measured using benzoyl-glycyl-histidyl-leucine as a substrate. Product formation of hippuric acid and histidyl-leucine was assessed by UV-HPLC. The stability of the peptides was quantified in human plasma and, in case of incubation with recombinant human angiotensin converting enzyme, in buffer. Variability of ACE inhibit.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2167-1095.1000198

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