Effect of heat-induced κ-casein dissociation on acid coagulation of milk

2018 ◽  
Vol 85 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daiki Oka ◽  
Wataru Ono ◽  
Shintarou Ohara ◽  
Tomohiro Noguchi ◽  
Katsumi Takano

In this study, the relationship between the dissociation of κ-casein from casein micelles due to heat-induced denaturation and the strength of acid milk gel was investigated. The κ-casein-dissociated micelles were fractionated by gel filtration chromatography and two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, and their zeta potential and surface hydrophobicity were measured. The negative charge of the κ-casein-dissociated micelles was lower than that of native micelles, and micellar surface hydrophobicity was higher. For confirmation, the isoelectric point of the casein micelles was measured. The κ-casein-dissociated micelles were found to cohere at an earlier stage of acidification than the native micelles. These results demonstrated that the heat-induced increase in the strength of acid milk gel was partly due to the decrease in micellar surface charge and partly to the increase in surface hydrophobicity caused by the dissociation of κ-casein.

1972 ◽  
Vol 130 (2) ◽  
pp. 425-433 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. M. D. Nambudiri ◽  
J. V. Bhat ◽  
P. V. Subba Rao

1. An enzyme responsible for the conversion of p-coumarate into caffeate was purified 97-fold from Streptomyces nigrifaciens. The enzyme had a molecular weight of 18000 as determined by Sephadex G-100 gel filtration and was homogeneous on polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis. 2. The preparation exhibited both p-coumarate hydroxylase and caffeate oxidase activities. 3. Stoicheiometry of the reaction indicated a mono-oxygenase-mediated catalysis consuming 1mol of O2/mol of substrate hydroxylated. 4. NADH, NADPH, tetrahydropteroylglutamate or ascorbate act as electron donors for the reaction, ascorbate being inhibitory at higher concentrations. 5. The optimum enzyme activity was at about pH7.7 and 40°C, with an activation energy of 39kJ/mol. 6. Monophenols such as p-hydroxyphenylpropionate, p-hydroxyphenylacetate, l-tyrosine and dl-p-hydroxyphenyl-lactate were also hydroxylated by the preparation, in addition to p-coumarate. 7. The enzyme was a copper protein having 0.38% copper in a bound form. 8. Thiol-group inhibitors did not affect the reaction. 9. The relationship of the enzyme to other hydroxylases is discussed.


1976 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. R. B. Russell

An examination has been made of the effect which temperature of solubilization has upon the subsequent migration in SDS–polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of proteins from the cell envelopes of Escherichia coli K12 and Neisseria sicca ATCC 9913. Conventional electrophoresis in tubes revealed substantial differences in the staining patterns of gels, depending upon whether the envelope samples were solubilized at 37 °C or 100 °C; in the case of N. sicca at least 6 of 13 discernible bands displayed heat-modifiable behavior. The relationship of the bands produced by each of the two temperatures was investigated by a two-dimensional electrophoresis procedure, in which a sample was solubilized at 37 °C and run in a usual cylindrical gel; the entire gel was then resolubilized at 100 °C, and laid along an acrylamide slab for electrophoresis in the second dimension.It was found that "free endotoxin" of both organisms examined contained the same major proteins as the total envelope fraction, and that these free endotoxin proteins showed the same heat-modifiable properties as when present in total envelopes.


1988 ◽  
Vol 254 (2) ◽  
pp. 419-426 ◽  
Author(s):  
P M Wiest ◽  
E J Tisdale ◽  
W L Roberts ◽  
T L Rosenberry ◽  
A A F Mahmoud ◽  
...  

Biosynthetic labelling experiments with cercariae and schistosomula of the multicellular parasitic trematode Schistosoma mansoni were performed to determine whether [3H]palmitate or [3H]ethanolamine was incorporated into proteins. Parasites incorporated [3H]palmitate into numerous proteins, as judged by SDS/polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis and fluorography. The radiolabel was resistant to extraction with chloroform, but sensitive to alkaline hydrolysis, indicating the presence of an ester bond. Further investigation of the major 22 kDa [3H]palmitate-labelled species showed that the label could be recovered in a Pronase fragment which bound detergent and had an apparent molecular mass of 1200 Da as determined by gel filtration on Sephadex LH-20. Schistosomula incubated with [3H]ethanolamine for up to 24 h incorporated this precursor into several proteins; labelled Pronase fragments recovered from the three most intensely labelled proteins were hydrophilic and had a molecular mass of approx. 200 Da. Furthermore, reductive methylation of such fragments showed that the [3H]ethanolamine bears a free amino group, indicating the lack of an amide linkage. We also evaluated the effect of phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C from Staphylococcus aureus: [3H]palmitate-labelled proteins of schistosomula and surface-iodinated proteins were resistant to hydrolysis with this enzyme. In conclusion, [3H]palmitate and [3H]ethanolamine are incorporated into distinct proteins of cercariae and schistosomula which do not bear glycophospholipid anchors. The [3H]ethanolamine-labelled proteins represent a novel variety of protein modification.


1981 ◽  
Vol 197 (3) ◽  
pp. 629-636 ◽  
Author(s):  
J L McKenzie ◽  
A K Allen ◽  
J W Fabre

Human and canine brain Thy-1 antigens were solubilized in deoxycholate and antigen activity was followed both by conventional absorbed anti-brain xenosera of proven specificity and by mouse monoclonal antibodies to canine and human Thy-1. It is shown that greater than 80% of Thy-1 activity in the dog and man binds to lentil lectin, that the mobility on sodium dodecyl sulphate/polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis of canine and human Thy-1 is identical with that of rat Thy-1 and that the Stokes radius in deoxycholate of canine and human brain Thy-1 is 3.0 nm and 3.25 nm respectively. Both lentil lectin affinity chromatography followed by gel-filtration chromatography on the one hand and monoclonal antibody affinity chromatography on the other gave high degrees of purification of the brain Thy-1 molecule in the dog and man, resulting in single bands staining for both protein and carbohydrate on sodium dodecyl sulphate/polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis (except for a slight contaminant of higher molecular weight staining for protein but not carbohydrate with human Thy-1 purified by lentil lectin and gel-filtration chromatography). Analysis of canine and human brain Thy-1 purified by monoclonal antibody affinity chromatography with additional gel filtration through Sephadex G-200 showed that these molecules had respectively 38% and 36% carbohydrate. The amino acid and carbohydrate compositions were similar to those previously reported for Thy-1 of the rat and mouse, the main point of interest being the presence in canine and human brain Thy-1 of N-acetylgalactosamine, which has been reported in rat and mouse brain Thy-1 but not in Thy-1 from other tissues.


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