{"id":8707,"date":"2019-05-22T16:10:38","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/peptides\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:10:38","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:10:38","slug":"peptides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/peptides\/","title":{"rendered":"Peptides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Acompound composed of two or more amino acids in which a carboxyl group of oneis linked to amino acid&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biology-online.org\/dictionary\/Monomer\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.biology-online.org\/dictionary\/Monomer?target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">monomers&nbsp;<\/a>&nbsp;f another group in a short chain. While theyhave been referred to as \u2018small proteins\u2019, peptides differ in terms ofstructure consisting of 50 or more amino acids. &nbsp;Moreover, proteins consist of one or morepolypeptides. &nbsp;Naturally-occurring milkpeptides are formed from the milk protein&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordreference.com\/view\/10.1093\/acref\/9780198529170.001.0001\/acref-9780198529170-e-2939\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordreference.com\/view\/10.1093\/acref\/9780198529170.001.0001\/acref-9780198529170-e-2939?target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">casein<\/a>&nbsp;whendigestive enzymes break it down and they important nutrients in breast-fedinfants (e.g., in bone growth, development of immune system).&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"amino_acids\">Amino acids<\/a>, <a href=\"endorphins\">Endorphins<\/a>, <a href=\"enzyme\">Enzyme<\/a>, <a href=\"glycoproteins\">Glycoproteins<\/a>, <a href=\"gonadotropin_releasing_hormone_-gnrh-\">Gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH)<\/a>, <a href=\"growth_hormone_-or_somatotropin-\">Growth hormone (or somatotropin)<\/a>, <a href=\"hormones\">Hormones<\/a>, <a href=\"hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal_-hpa-_axis\">Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis<\/a>, <a href=\"ligands\">Ligands<\/a>, <a href=\"peptides\">Peptides<\/a>, <a href=\"polypeptides\">Polypeptides<\/a>, <a href=\"prolactin\">Prolactin<\/a>, Proteins<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acompound composed of two or more amino acids in which a carboxyl group of oneis linked to amino acid&nbsp;monomers&nbsp;&nbsp;f another group in a short chain. While theyhave been referred to as \u2018small proteins\u2019, peptides differ in terms ofstructure consisting of 50 or more amino acids. &nbsp;Moreover, proteins consist of one or morepolypeptides. &nbsp;Naturally-occurring milkpeptides are &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/peptides\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Peptides&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}