1. Properties of Protein Isolates from Marine Hydrobionts Obtained by Isoelectric Solubilisation/Precipitation: Influence of Temperature and Processing Time.
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Derkach, Svetlana R., Kuchina, Yuliya A., Kolotova, Daria S., Petrova, Ludmila A., Volchenko, Vasily I., Glukharev, Andrei Yu., and Grokhovsky, Vladimir A.
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ESSENTIAL amino acids , *PRECIPITATION (Chemistry) , *PROTEIN structure , *PROTEINS , *SELF-healing materials - Abstract
Protein isolates were obtained from marine hydrobionts by the method of isoelectric precipitation with a preliminary stage of protein alkaline solubilisation. Northern blue whiting was chosen as the raw material. Various technological modes of the solubilisation stage were used: the temperature of the reaction mixture was 4 or 20 °C, and the duration was 4 or 16 h. The yield of the product was 44–45% with a high content of the main component (protein) equal to about 95%. It has been shown that a decrease in the temperature and duration of the alkaline solubilisation stage provides the production of protein isolates with good technological properties, a low solubility, high swelling and high emulsifying ability, necessary for its use in the production of functional food products, including therapeutic and prophylactic effects. These technological properties are explained by a change in the composition and structure of the protein, the change being an increase in the content of essential amino acids and the proportion of α-helices in the polypeptide chain. The main patterns obtained will be used to obtain protein isolates from marine molluscs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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