{"id":59737,"date":"2025-08-17T16:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T10:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=59737"},"modified":"2025-08-18T21:54:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T16:24:16","slug":"bioactive-peptides-baps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/bioactive-peptides-baps\/","title":{"rendered":"Bioactive Peptides (BAPs)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Bioactive Peptides Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A study of population-specific responses to fermented food shows that the health effect of the bioactive peptides they contain, differ across populations and can personalise nutrition for India&#8217;s diverse population.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Bioactive Peptides<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Peptides <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">are <\/span><b>strings of molecules called amino acids,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which are the &#8220;building blocks&#8221; of proteins.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The amino acids<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">are joined by<\/span><b> covalent bonds<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> known as<\/span><b> amide or peptide bonds.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>For a peptide to be considered bioactive, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">it should have a <\/span><b>physiological effect in a positive manner.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although <\/span><b>some BAPs exist free in their natural source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the vast <\/span><b>majority <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of known<\/span><b> BAPs <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">are <\/span><b>encrypted in the structure of the parent proteins<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and are <\/span><b>released mainly by enzymatic processes.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Most <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of the <\/span><b>BAPs are derived from plants and animals<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>source <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of BAPs includes <\/span><b>milk, cheese, pickles<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (fermented fruits and vegetables), <\/span><b>plants, egg, fish, meat, and soybean products<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Some BAPs<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> have been <\/span><b>prepared by chemical synthesis.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BAPs play a significant role in human health<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by<\/span><b> affecting the digestive, endocrine, cardiovascular, immune, and nervous systems.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BAPs are considered the <\/span><b>new generation of biologically active regulators<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">; they can <\/span><b>prevent oxidation and microbial degradation in foods<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and also<\/span><b> improve the treatment of various diseases and disorders, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">thus increasing the quality of life.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Peptides vs. Proteins<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Both peptides and proteins <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">are <\/span><b>made up of strings of amino acids <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that are held together by peptide bonds.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The main difference is that <\/span><b>peptides are shorter strings of amino acids than proteins,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> although the terms aren&#8217;t used precisely.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most scientists refer to <\/span><b>chains with over 100 amino acids as proteins.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\">In addition,<b style=\"font-size: inherit;\"> peptides tend to be less well defined in structure than protein<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">s, which can adopt complex conformations known as secondary, tertiary, and quaternary structures.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2156371\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PIB<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bioactive peptides are amino acid chains, the building blocks of proteins, that show positive physiological effects on health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":59910,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2224,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-59737","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-bioactive-peptides","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}