Released on = February 12, 2007, 9:24 am

Press Release Author = Debra Thai

Industry = Biotech

Press Release Summary = Because the availability of plant-related catalog peptides
has traditionally been minimal to non-existent, the only way to obtain synthetic
plant peptides has been through a significant investment in custom peptide services.


Press Release Body = Recognizing the growing need for quality, on demand peptide
solutions, AnaSpec has introduced a series of research-ready plant peptides called
phytochelatins. With one of the largest collections of catalog peptides on the
planet, this introduction makes AnaSpec one of the world's leading providers of
catalog phytochelatin peptides.

Phytochelatins (PCs), a name coined by E. Grill et al. (1), belong to a class of
heavy metal-detoxifying peptides. These glutathione derived peptides chelate heavy
metals such as Cd, Zn, Cu and Pb and have a general formula of
(gamma-Glu-Cys)n-Gly, where n

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