Lupine Peptides
Lupine Peptides
Lupine Peptides prevent collagen and elastin from being damaged, helping to renew skin’s outer layer, reducing the depth of wrinkles and stimulating the production of more collagen and elastin, giving the skin a more youthful look.
Lupine Peptides is a blend of penta- and hexa- peptides that work as an MMP inhibitor. MMP stands for Matrix Metalloproteinase.
The pro-peptide domain is part of the "cysteine switch." This contains a conserved cysteine residue that interacts with the zinc in the active site and prevents binding and cleavage of the substrate, keeping the enzyme in an inactive form. In the majority of the MMPs, the cysteine residue is in the conserved sequence PRCGxPD.
Although lupin seeds are specifically registered as an allergy hazard, peptide extracts such as this have little risk of reaction.
Protein and amino acid extracts from lupins score only 1/10 on the Cosmetic Safety Database.
Lupine cultivation is at least 2,000 years old and most likely began in Egypt or in the general Mediterranean region.
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