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The True Face of Protein

With the prosperity of the health food, health products, and fitness industries, the name protein has increasingly appeared in people's vision. The various claims about it are also bizarre. In a rigorous and scientific attitude, we will discuss the true features of protein separately.

Protein and carbohydrate substances, lipid substances, nucleic acid substances, water, inorganic salts, etc. are all basic constituents of the human body, animals, and plants. The various manifestations and characteristics of life are realized through the unique metabolic functions of biology on the basic level of these substances. As an organic whole, life has certain needs for these substances, and various substances are also in a certain balanced and stable state in the organism. Various substances have different functions and effects. For example, the main function of carbohydrates is to provide energy, and they also participate in many metabolic reactions of the body, which can regulate the progress and speed of some reactions; lipids are involved in energy storage, hormone synthesis, and joint lubrication. , Blood vessel softening, and other functions.

The same protein is one of the most important life material foundations in the human body, and it is also one of the carrier materials for life to exhibit metabolism. It has even been proposed that the simplest and most basic life body (prion) can be constructed by protein alone. Today we will take a look at the basic structure and functional structure of the protein in the end.

Protein is a kind of bulky and functionally specific molecular group. It is composed of more than 20 kinds of natural amino acids through various permutations and combinations to form peptide chains. The peptide chains are then connected, twisted, and twisted to form a polypeptide structure. Through a certain combination of structures, protein molecules are finally formed. Due to this construction method, protein molecules have some exclusive chemical and biological activities in certain positions, such as chlorophyll protein molecules that capture photon energy in sunlight through the core of magnesium ions and transfer the energy to ADP and ATP after energy capture As well as NAD, the coenzyme protein is responsible for combining energy with carbon dioxide and water to synthesize glucose molecules. These similar tasks happen in our bodies all the time, and they are all dominated by protein molecules. Of course, other substances also play a key role in completing this reaction process together.

Through further analysis and research, the protein can realize the transmission of information through the potential difference in some positions of its own, and some electrochemical changes, such as the neurotransmitter at the end of the brain nerve cell, the change of the potential difference, the formation of electrical signals, and rapid transmission And exchange information.

It may be said that we can't get all the support. However, proteins such as proteins are fundamentally the living body itself. Although nucleic acid materials are genetic materials and the blueprint of life, they also need to realize the characteristics of life through the expression of proteins, which is more like Protein assistance. Other substances either provide energy, provide the environment, transmit substances and information, or assist proteins in fulfilling their functions. It can be said that protein is the core substance of the life process.

With the development of biomedicine, people have also realized that the nature of medicine and food homology is that the active ingredients in it enter the body to produce functions. Human body-derived substances are the least harmful to the human body, so natural extracts are increasingly being paid attention to, and the extraction of natural animal and plant protein is the frontier and hot spot in this field. The molecular weight of protein-peptide molecules obtained by using biological enzymatic hydrolysis technology can reach a single peptide chain or even smaller peptide molecules, and the human body and organisms have obvious biological functional responses to them. These are not just nutrients, but peptide molecules with specific biological functions. This is the "peptide science" that has been admired by society and academia in recent years. This field has features such as functionality, complexity, diversity, and naturalness, and it is easy to produce new results and products. It is a social and academic value. And the new focus on economic value.

This is the true face of protein: ordinary value focus and technological highland.