Team:Imperial College London/M2

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II09 Thumb m2.pngModule 2 - Encapsulsation Overview

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Aside from aiding in pill manufacture, encapsulation (Module 2) allows the safe passage of polypetides through the stomach into the intestine. The encapsulation process involves the production of a physical barrier, acid resistance proteins and the preservative trehalose. Without encapsulation, our polypeptides would be denatured and degraded by stomach acid and digestive proteases respectively.




  About proteolysis.


Our solution represents a fusion between probiotic treatment & polypeptide encapsulation