Interactions and effects of food additive dye Allura red on pepsin structure and protease activity; experimental and computational supports

• Egile Nagusiak: Fatemeh Balaei (Egilea), Mohabbat Ansari (Egilea), Negin Farhadian (Egilea), Sajad Moradi (Egilea), Mohsen Shahlaei (Egilea)
• Formatua: Liburua
• Argitaratua: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Gaiak: article
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Background and purpose: Today, color additives such as Allura red (AR) are widely used in different kinds of food products. Pepsin is a globular protein that is secreted as a digestive protease from the main cells in the stomach. Because of the important role of pepsin in protein digestion and becau...