Recent advances in Crocodile-derived Bioactive Peptides

Jiangning Yan¹, Zi Xiong¹, Mengting Wu¹, Youzhen Chen² and Chenguang Yao^1,

¹Sino-German Biomedical Center, Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory of Industrial Microbiology, Cooperative Innovation Center of Industrial Fermentation (Ministry of Education & Hubei Province), Key Laboratory of Fermentation Engineering (Ministry of Education), National “111” Center for Cellular Regulation and Molecular Pharmaceutics, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan 430068, Hubei, PR China

²Hubei Oriental Alligator Biotechnology Co., LTD, Xiaogan, Hubei, China

Cite this paper:
Jiangning Yan, Zi Xiong, Mengting Wu, Youzhen Chen and Chenguang Yao. Recent advances in Crocodile-derived Bioactive Peptides. Journal of Food and Nutrition Research. 2025; 13(3):156-162. doi: 10.12691/jfnr-13-3-5

Abstract

Bioactive peptides are a group of biological molecules derived from animals, plants, or microorganisms, which can naturally occur or be obtained through proteolytic cleavage of proteins. Increasingly, these peptides have been developed into functional foods, specialized medical foods, and pharmaceuticals. Crocodile-derived bioactive peptides have gained consumer favor over the past decade. In this review, we summarize the sources, the production methods, and the applications of these peptides including antibacterial, antioxidant, anti-aging, anti-tumor, and anti-inflammatory effects, and discuss the prospects for the future development of the crocodile peptide industry, which provides a reference for researchers interested in biomedicine, functional foods, bioactive peptides, and the crocodile industry.

Keywords:
Bioactive peptide Crocodile Antibacterial Antioxidant Anti-aging

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