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*Grain and Seed Proteins Functionality*

compounds.

**Acknowledgements**

Andalusia, grant Ref.: PI-0450-2019.

**Conflict of interest statement**

benefits and their potential uses as functional foods.

of high interest at nutritional and nutraceutical level due to large number of health

This study has been partially funded by The Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness through the grants Ref.: RYC-2014-16536 (Ramon y Cajal Research Program) to JCJ-L; and Ministry of Health and Families, Andalusian government. Funding for R+D+i in biomedical research and health sciences in

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Many seed compounds have been described and their outstanding properties related to health improvement as anti-inflammatory-related diseases as type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, cancer, among others. Different molecular mechanisms have demonstrated to be implicated in these health benefits, but many other are still to be studies and deeply understand in order to explore effective diagnosis, therapies, and develop treatment based in grain/seed nutraceutical

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Salvador Priego-Poyato1 , Maria Rodrigo-Garcia1 , Julia Escudero-Feliu<sup>2</sup> , Maria Garcia-Costela2 , Elena Lima-Cabello1 , Angel Carazo-Gallego3 , Sonia Morales-Santana4 , Josefa Leon5 and Jose C. Jimenez-Lopez1 \*

1 Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Estacion Experimental del Zaidin, Department of Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology of Plants, Granada, Spain

2 Technical-Experimental Unit of the Biomedical Research Institute of Granada (Ibs.Granada), Granada, Spain

3 Genomic Research Department, San Cecilio University Hospital, Biomedical Research Institute of Granada (Ibs.Granada), Granada, Spain

4 Proteomic Research Department, San Cecilio University Hospital, Biomedical Research Institute of Granada (Ibs.Granada), Granada, Spain

5 Clinical Management Unit of Digestive System, University Hospital San Cecilio, Biomedical Research Institute of Granada (Ibs.Granada), Granada, Spain

\*Address all correspondence to: josecarlos.jimenez@eez.csic.es

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