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RADiation harvesting of bioactive peptides from egg prOteins and their integration in adVanced functional products

Project description

Exploring new ways to produce bioactive peptides from egg proteins

Bioactive peptides generated from different food proteins show much potential as nutraceuticals. Bioactive peptides derived from egg proteins is a promising avenue. To examine this new route, the EU-funded RADOV project aims to use high-energy radiation from electron accelerators to produce peptides. Using electron beam irradiation, it will design and develop two new products containing bioactive proteins/peptides. This will be done to broaden the application of ionising radiation and to demonstrate the wide range of its uses. The products are peptide-laden antimicrobial/antioxidant hydrogel wound dressings and peptide-grafted active food packaging film.

Objective

RADOV moves from the well-established radiation process applications in food irradiation for disinfection and shelf-life increase, and from several decades of fundamental studies of the biological effects of radiation in vivo, to explore completely new routes for the production of bioactive peptides from egg proteins based on radiation-induced fragmentation, and new product prototypes that incorporate egg protein-derived peptides.
High energy radiation from electron accelerators will be used to produce peptides and the collection of the results acquired regarding the peptide structure, irradiation conditions, and related bioactivity properties will be one vital output of the project. To expand the application of ionizing radiation and to demonstrate the broad scope of its applications, new products containing bioactive proteins/ peptides will be designed and developed with the use of electron beam irradiation to manufacture them. In particular, two target products will be developed as demonstrators of egg-derived AMPs by radiation-induced fragmentation: peptide-laden antimicrobial/antioxidant hydrogel wound dressings and peptide-grafted active food packaging film.

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EURATOM-IA - EURATOM Innovation Actions

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Call for proposal

(opens in new window) HORIZON-EURATOM-2021-NRT-01

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Coordinator

INSTYTUT CHEMII I TECHNIKI JADROWEJ
Net EU contribution
€ 478 550,00
Address
ul. Dorodna 16
03-195 Warszawa
Poland
Region
Makroregion województwo mazowieckie Warszawski stołeczny Miasto Warszawa
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Total cost
€ 524 800,00

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