Human hair proteins as natural reactive oxygen species scavengers for in vitro applications

• Main Authors: Lai, Hui Ying, Setyawati, Magdiel Inggrid, Duarte, Catarina Vizetto, Chua, Huei Min, Low, Choon Teck, Ng, Kee Woei
• Other Authors: School of Materials Science and Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Engineering::Materials; Engineering::Materials::Biomaterials; Antioxidant; Biomaterial
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/162994
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Human hair proteins are recognized for their intrinsically high cysteine content. They can be solubilized while preserving their highly reductive thiol groups for free radical scavenging applications. The presence of aromatic and nucleophilic amino acids such as methionine, serine, phenylalanine and...