It is an HCl (Hydrochloric acid) hydrolysate of casein containing of 8% nitrogen, 37% salts and is deficient in cystein and tryptophan. It is deficient in cystine, ...
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3 Classification of Peptone Introduction Depending upon their sources and use the peptones are classified.
Classification The peptones are classified in five types depending on their sources; 1. Animal Peptones/Meat Peptones l Beef Peptone l Chicken Feather Peptone(CFP) l Dipeptone
Classification of Peptone l Gelatin Peptone l Gelysate Peptone l Lactalbumin hydrolysate peptone l Myosate Peptone l Peptamin l Pork peptone l Proteose Peptone l Wittes Peptone l Wool Peptone
2. Plant/Vegetable Peptones l Cotton Seed peptone l Kosher soy peptone l Pea Peptone l Potato Peptone l Rice peptone l Soya Peptone l Veg Peptone l Wheat Peptone
3. Casein or Milk derived Peptones l Acid casein Peptone or Acidicase Peptone l Bio-peptone l Casein Peptone l Casein Peptone TT
4. Mixed peptones l Casein Meat Peptone l Casein yeast Peptone l Mycological peptone l Panopeptone
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5. Other Peptones l Gold Peptone l Marine Peptone
Acidase Peptone It is an HCl (Hydrochloric acid) hydrolysate of casein containing of 8% nitrogen, 37% salts and is deficient in cystein and tryptophan. It is deficient in cystine, because casein contains little cystine, and in tryptophan, which are destroyed by the acid treatment. Acidicase Peptone is intended for use as a nutritional supplement in vitamin assay. It is also called as acid casein peptone.
Beef Peptone There are innumerable fluid preparations of pep-tonised beef which are recommended for invalid consumption.
Bio-peptone Bio-peptone is a combination of enzymatic digest of animal tissues and casein.
Biosate Peptone Biosate Peptone is a mixed hydrolysate composed of 65% pancreatic digest of casein and 35% yeast extract.
Calcium Casein Peptone-Calcium Phosphate The calcium casein peptone-calcium phosphate complexes would be used as texturizer added to chewing gum at a use level up to 5% wt/wt. The recognition of the use of casein as a texturizer in chewing gum dates back to
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the 1930's. Calcium casein peptone-calcium phosphate has been determined GRAS.
Casein Peptones The casein peptones are so named because of their starting material, milk.
Casein Meat Peptones Casein-Meat Peptone is manufactured by a controlled enzymatic hydrolysis of casein and animal tissues.
Casein Yeast Peptone (CYP) CYP deocomposes at 2020C.
Chicken Feather Peptone (CFP) CFP is rich in ash (42.1 g 100 g-1), protein (55.8 g 100 g-1) and mineral contents.
Dipeptone An enzymatic digest of animal tissue and casein. Dipeptone contains many peptide sizes in combination with vitamins, nucleotides, minerals and other carbon sources. Dipeptone is particularly well suited in supplying the growth requirements of fastidious bacteria. This peptone is extremely valuable in media for cultivation of pathogenic fungi. Growth of these microorganisms is rapid and colony formation is uniform and typical.
Gelatin Peptone Gelatin peptone is a pancreatic digest of porcine skin. The pancreatic digestion produces a balanced mixture of
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amino acids, including essential amino acids, in ration and low molecular peptides. It is low in fermentable carbohydrates and is used in culture media, especially for non-fastidious microorganisms. It is also used in fermentation studies.
Gelysate Peptone A pancreatic digest of gelatin deficient in cystine and tryptophan and which has a low carbohydrate content.
Gold Peptone The water-soluble complex gold-peptone-saccharide compounds that are obtained by the reaction of a gold salt with a peptone and a compound of the sugar series like monosaccharides, disaccharides, trisaccharides and polysaccharides. In place of, the poly-saccharides other compounds of the sugar series such as glucose, milk-sugar, cane-sugar, maltose, raffinose, cellobiose, etc. may be used. The process for the manufacture of water soluble goldpeptone-saccharide-complexes, comprising causing a gold salt to act upon a peptone and a water-soluble member of the group consisting of mono-, di-, tri- and polysaccharides in aqueous weakly acid solution as long as metallic gold is separated out and removing the metal.
Lactalbumin Hydrolysate Peptone A peptone that is obtained from pancreatic digest of lactalbumin and whey protein. As it contains high amount of amino acids it is used in media for tissue culture.
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Meat Peptones Meat peptones are proteins from animal sources that have been hydrolyzed, or broken down into amino acids and peptides, to provide nitrogen for microorganisms. They contain high sulfur and hence used for testing hydrogen sulfide.
Mycological Peptone Mycological peptones are mixture of plant and animal peptones, that contains total nitrogen of 9.5% and NaCl of 1.1%.
Myosate Peptone A pancreatic digest of heart muscle.
Neopeptone An enzymatic digest of protein.
Panopeptone It is also called as Bread and Beef peptone, and is a preparation in which wheat starch and beef are both predigested. It may be taken cold in doses of one to four tea spoon iced, or with carbonic-acid water, or wines, but it should not be mixed with milk or other foods. Beef peptonoids are also mixed with predigested milk and gluten.
Pancreatic Digest of Casein (Peptone C) Pancreatic Digest of Casein is recommended for preparing media where an enzymatic hydrolyzed casein is
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desired. Casein is a rich source of amino acid nitrogen. This product is used to support the growth of fastidious microorganisms, and has a high tryptophan content.
Pancreatic Digest of Gelatin (Peptone G) Pancreatic Digest of Gelatin is deficient in carbohydrates. Pancreatic Digest of Gelatin is used as a media ingredient for fermentation studies, and alone to support the growth of non-fastidious microorganisms.
Papaic Digest of Soybean Meal (Peptone S) Papaic Digest of Soybean Meal is a nitrogen source, and contains the naturally occurring high concentrations of vitamins and carbohydrates of soybean. Papaic Digest of Soybean Meal minimizes bovine spongiform encephalopathy(BSE) risk in vaccine production because the origin of this product is plant.
Peptic Digest of Animal Tissue (Peptone A) Peptic Digest of Animal Tissue provides nitrogen, amino acids, vitamins and carbon in microbiological culture.
Papaic Soy Peptone Papaic soy peptone is an animal free peptone that is obtained by defatting soybean flour with high carbohydrate content and balanced amount of amino acids and vitamins. It is soluble in water.
Peptamin A peptic digest of animal tissues.
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Peptone Bacteriological Neutralized A mixed pancreatic and papaic digest of animal tissues. It contains total nitrogen of 14.0% and NaCl of 1.6%.
Peptone Gold Syrup Peptone Gold Syrup is a medicine that is used for the treatment of Allergies, Alzhemier's, Liver Disease depression, Mental Disorder, Memory loss and other conditions. It contains choline and cypoheptadine. It works by reducing the fatty liver buildup and blocks the action of histamine.
Peptone P A peptic digest of fresh meat that has a high sulfur content and contains total nitrogen of 11.12% and NaCl of 9.3%.
Peptonized Milk A pancreatic digest of high-grade skim milk powder. It has a high carbohydrate and calcium concentration. It contains total nitrogen of 5.3% and NaCl of 1.6%. It also contains tryptophan.
Phytone Peptone A papaic digest of soybean meal. It has a high vitamin and high carbohydrate content.
Polypeptone Peptone A mixture of peptones composed of equal parts of pancreatic digest of casein (casein Peptone) and peptic digest of animal tissue (meat peptone).
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It is generally used in culture media as a superior source of nutrients.
Pork Gelatin Peptone Pancreatic digest of gelatin is obtained by enzymatic hydrolysis of porcine origin gelatin.
Pork Liver Peptone Pork Liver Peptone is prepared from porcine liver by controlled enzymatic hydrolysis.
Pork Meat Peptone It is an enzymatic hydrolysate of porcine animal tissue. It can be also used as a substitute for meat peptone(Bovin) in culture media formulations.
Pork Peptones The peptones developed from porcine ingredients that serves alternative to bovin meat peptones and have the same quality and performance as other peptones.
Potato Peptone Peptone prepared from potatoes.
Proteose Peptone(PP) Proteose Peptone (PP) is an enzymatic digestion of animal tissues. It is commonly used in the preparation of culture media for the production of toxins, and in the fermentation industry for starter cultures. It is a highly
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nutritious source for the growth of a wide range of microorganisms.
Proteose Peptone No. 2 & 3 An enzymatic digest of animal tissues with a high concentration of high molecular weight peptones.
Rice Peptone Peptone prepared from rice.
Sardinella Peptone It is a peptone prepared from the fish sardinella. It is a good substrate for the growth of S. simulans.
Sesbania Peptone The peptone prepared from Sesbania.
Soy Peptone (Soya Peptone) A papaic/enzymatic digests of soybean meal/ flour.
Special Peptone A mixture of peptones, including meat, plant, and yeast digests. It contains a wide variety of peptides, nucleotides, and minerals. It contains total nitrogen of 11.7% and NaCl of 3.5%.
Trypticase Peptone A pancreatic digest of casein. It has very low carbohydrate content and relatively high tryptophan
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content. It is the primary source of nitrogen in Trypticase soy broth and agar.
Veg Peptone The peptone prepared from the vegetable proteins by enzymic hydrolysis having comparable growth promoting properties like that of animal origin peptone. Following are the various types of Veg Peptones: Veg Peptone No. 1 An enzymic hydrolysate of specially selected vegetable proteins that gives comparable growth promoting properties as animal origin peptone. Veg Peptone No. 2 An enzymic hydrolysate of vegetable proteins that gives comparable growth promoting properties as gelatin peptone. Veg Peptone No. 3 An enzymic hydrolysate of vegetable proteins that gives comparable growth promoting properties as proteose peptone. Veg Peptone No. 4 An enzymic hydrolysate of vegetable proteins that gives comparable growth promoting properties as mycological peptone. Veg Peptone No. 5 An enzymic hydrolysate of vegetable proteins that gives comparable growth promoting properties as bio peptone.
Veg Peptone B An enzymic hydrolysate of vegetable proteins that gives comparable growth promoting properties as proteose peptone.
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Veg Peptone C An enzymic hydrolysate of vegetable proteins that gives comparable growth promoting properties as animal origin peptone.
Veg Special Peptone An enzymic hydrolysate of vegetable proteins that gives comparable growth promoting properties as neopeptone and animal special peptone.
Veggietone Soya Peptone Veggietone Soya Peptone(VG300) is an enzymatic digest of soya flour.
Wheat Peptone Peptone prepared from wheat.
Wittes Peptone Peptonized fibrin is also known as Witte peptone. It is prepared from meat.
Wool Peptone(WP) Wool peptones are prepared from sheep wool proteins. Wool peptone contains 67.8 per 100g of proteins and ash about 29.2per100g, Glutamic acid 81.75mg per 100g, cysteine 50.42mg per 100g. Wool peptone (WP) is a good growth substrate, especially for A. niger and E. coli.
