scholarly journals Trimethylamine oxide and derived compounds' changes during frozen storage of hake (Merluccius merluccius)

1995 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.G. Sotelo ◽  
J.M. Gallardo ◽  
C. Piñeiro ◽  
R. Pérez-Martin
2012 ◽  
Vol 132 (1) ◽  
pp. 160-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabel Sánchez-Alonso ◽  
Pedro Carmona ◽  
Mercedes Careche

1973 ◽  
Vol 30 (8) ◽  
pp. 1205-1213 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. H. Castell ◽  
B. Smith ◽  
W. J. Dyer

Addition of formaldehyde to fresh cod muscle, to give concentrations of 10 to 200 ppm, brought about marked decreases in the extractable protein content during holding periods of 24 hr or less at 0 C. Similar levels of formaldehyde, produced during frozen storage of gadoid (Atlantic cod, Gadus morhua, pollock, Pollachius virens, cusk, Brosme brosme, and silver hake, Merluccius bilinearis), fillets at −5 C, brought about similar reductions in the extractable proteins. Comparative tests showed that, in the concentrations normally encountered in deteriorating frozen gadoid fillets, formaldehyde was a much more active protein-insolubilizing agent than free fatty acid. It is evident that in these protein changes more than one mechanism is involved. Observed species-differences in the extent to which fish proteins became insolubilized during storage appeared to be related to presence or absence of these different mechanisms. The more rapid and more extensive denaturation of most gadoid fillets in frozen storage than of fillets of nongadoid species appears to be directly related to the presence of muscle enzyme of the former group that is capable of producing formaldehyde from trimethylamine oxide, which is absent in the muscle of the nongadoid species so far tested.


1995 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.G. Sotelo ◽  
J.M. Franco ◽  
S.P. Aubourg ◽  
J.M. Gallardo

The effect of storage at subzero temperatures (-5°C, -12°C, and -20°C) on hake ( Merluccius merluccius L.) muscle free-amino acid fraction was evaluated. A significant increase in free aspartic acid, serine, threonine, arginine, β-alanine, tyrosine, methionine, valine, phenylalanine, isoleucine, leucine, and lysine was found at -5°C, whereas at -12°C, a significant decrease in free glutamic acid, glycine, methyl-histidine, β-alanine, taurine, alanine, and leucine was the most noticeable. No changes in the free amino acid fraction were observed at -20°C. Activity of different kind of enzymes, aminopeptidases, aminoacid deaminases, and decarboxylases might be involved in the changes observed at -5°C and -12°C.


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