Rapid purification and characterization of angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitory peptides from lizard fish protein hydrolysates with magnetic affinity separation

In this study, angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitory peptides from lizard fish protein hydrolysate with neutral protease were purified through magnetic affinity separation. Magnetic agarose microsphere was prepared by reverse-phase microemulsion method, and its surface was modified with epoxy groups to immobilize ACE as a magnetic affinity medium (MAM-ACE) and then mixed with lizard fish ultrafiltration hydrolysate (<5 kDa). The MAM-ACE was recovered by a magnet. The bound peptides were released by 1 M NaCl and further purified by reverse-phase high-performance liquid chromatography. The amino acid sequence of the peptide with the highest ACE inhibitory activity was identified as Gly-Met-Lys-Cys-Ala-Phe, and its IC50 was 45.7 ± 1.1 μM. The result indicates that MAM-ACE is a faster and more efficient method for purifying micro-bioactive peptides from food protein complex mixtures compared with ion exchange and gel chromatography.