Jennings CC, Freidenberger M, Christensen SA, Conlin J, Freidenberger O, Kenealey JD. Thermal characterization and separation of whey proteins by differential scanning calorimetry.
Food Chem 2024;
441:138347. [PMID:
38183724 DOI:
10.1016/j.foodchem.2023.138347]
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Abstract
Most commercially available whey products contain a mixture of 6-7 whey proteins; however, there is an increased focus on using the individual whey proteins for their unique biological activities. Before extracting individual whey proteins for use, it is important to quantify how much of a particular protein is present in whey mixtures as well as if the protein is still structurally folded. We first characterized the denaturation temperature and enthalpy values for the six purified whey proteins at six pHs (3-9) and under ion chelation using a nano-differential scanning calorimeter (DSC). From the individual protein scans, we determined the optimal condition for detecting all 6 proteins on a single DSC scan was whey in an EDTA MOPs pH 6.7 buffer.
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