Abstract: Marine animal contains quite specific and potent active molecules, and is a enormous resource for active peptides. In recent years, there have been some new advances in R & D of marine active peptides related to functional food. From the view of the functional food, the new research advances of Cationic antimicrobial peptides, Urotensin-II, gastrin/CCK-like peptides and tropomyosin were summarized in this paper.

Key words: marine animal, active peptides, functional food