Biotechnology Bulletin ›› 2014, Vol. 0 ›› Issue (10): 43-48.

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Progress of Antimicrobial Peptides as Feed Additive

Qiao Wei, Hao Hua, Peng Hui, Liu Jie, Chen Huiyun   

  1. State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science,Xiamen University,Xiamen 361102
  • Received:2014-02-28 Online:2014-10-20 Published:2014-10-17

Abstract: Antibacterial peptides or Antimicrobial peptides(AMPs), a class of small-molecule active peptides, are an important component of the innate defense system of organism to resist against invasion of foreign pathogens. Antibiotics pollution is one of the most important issues that would affect the sustainable development of stock farming and aquaculture industry in our country. Antibiotic residues in agricultural(including aquaculture)products involved in this issue is the bottleneck of our food safety and exports, and excessive antibiotics addition to feedstuff is one of the main reasons for antibiotic residues. Thus, finding and developing alternatives for antibiotics is the urgent requirement of healthy development of animal husbandry and aquaculture industry in China. In this article,the sources, function and its application as feed additives in livestock were reviewed..

Key words: Antimicrobial peptides, Feed additive, Progress