Acronym TailoTides
Category
Marine Biotechnology
Title Sensor-guided enzymatic protein hydrolysis and separation technologies for tailored biomanufacturing of bioactive peptides Programme National Programme
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
NA
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
NA
Specific Programme (FP7)
NA
Funding source National Coordinator Sileshi Gizachew Wubshet Coordinator email sileshi.wubshet@nofima.no
Coordinator institution
NOFIMA - Norwegian Institute of Food, Fisheries and Aquaculture Research (Norway)
Institutions involved
NA - Aquateam COWI AS (Norway) ,
Start year 2021 End year 2024 Funding (€) € 805,600 Website https://prosjektbanken.forskningsradet.no/project/FORISS/320086?Kilde=FORISS&distribution=Ar&chart=bar&calcType=funding&Sprak=no&sortBy=date&sortOrder=desc&resultCount=30&offset=0&Prosjektleder=Michael+North Summary Enzymatic protein hydrolysis (EPH), i.e. protease catalysed breakdown of proteins into peptides and amino acids, is a biotechnological solution recognized as a central element in the circular bioeconomy in the food industry. This technology bears a huge potential to transform food processing by-products to a revenue stream. Bioactive peptides are one of the potential high-end products that can be produced using EPH. Such specialized bioactive peptides (i.e., small chains of amino acids) can have application as health promoting ingredients or supplements with cholesterol lowering, blood sugar regulation and blood pressure lowering effects. State-of-the-art EPH process currently used in the food industry is a crude transformation of by-products into unrefined mixtures of large proteins, smaller peptides and amino acids. The inherent complexity of crude protein hydrolysates, containing thousands of peptide fragments, calls for downstream processing steps to refine the crude hydrolysates into fractions of favorable properties. With a central aim of advancing the EPH process, the project TailoTides takes an interdisciplinary approach for refining tailored bioactive peptide from underutilized agricultural and marine biomasses (i.e., poultry by-products and Calanus finmarchicus). These will be achieved through combined use of cutting-edge science in biotechnology, molecular biology, analytical chemistry, sensor technology and separation technologies. In addition to generally advancing the EPH process, a successful implementation of such project could result in novel applications of peptides derived from poultry by-products and C. finmarchicus as health promoting ingredients for major lifestyle diseases, such as type-2-diabetes. This interdisciplinary project combines scientific competencies from two research institutes (Nofima AS and AquaTeam COWI) together with industry partners that have invested heavily in biotech processing in recent years (Calanus AS and Norilia AS).
Keywords
Wastes;
Zooplankton;
Waste valorization;
Human health;
Bioprospecting;
Bioactive compounds;
Marine Region
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Not associated to marine areas
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