Title

Heating Skim Milk Alters the Migration of Immunoreactive Milk Proteins in Acrylamide Gels

Author Info

Walter L. Hurley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Christine E. Magura, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Rafael Jiménez-Flores, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignFollow

Publication Date

2-1993

Recommended Citation

Published in Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Volume 41, Issue 2, February 1, 1993, pages 280-282.

NOTE: At the time of publication, the author Rafael Jiménez-Flores was affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Currently, May 2008, he is Professor of Dairy Science at California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo, CA.

Abstract

Effects of heat treatment on skim milk proteins were characterized using an immunoblot method. Proteins in heat-treated skim milk were separated by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (nonreducing and reducing conditions) and electrophoretically transferred to nitrocellulose and β-lactoglobulin, α-lactalbumin, and κ-casein were detected by immunoblotting. High molecular weight immunoreactive β-lactoglobulin was apparent in skim milk samples heated at 65°C and above when electrophoresed under nonreducing conditions. Formation of high molecular weight immunoreactive β-lactoglobulin was observed in heat-treated samples electrophoresed under reducing conditions. Immunoreactive α-lactalbumin in skim milk was not substantially affected by heat treatment. High molecular weigh immunoreactive κ-caesin was present in nonreduced samples from each temperature treatment, including incubation at room temperature, but not in samples electrophoresed under reducing conditions. This immunoblot method should be valuable for further study of intermolecular interactions of milk proteins.

Disciplines

Dairy Science