Journal
FOOD CHEMISTRY
Volume 196, Issue -, Pages 1005-1015Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2015.10.062
Keywords
High pressure; Protein structure modification; Myofibrillar proteins; Protein functionality; SDS PAGE; NIR; LF-NMR; SEC-LS
Funding
- Danish Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries [3304-FVFP-08-K-21-04]
- Fundacion Alfonso Martin Escudero
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Complementary methodologies were used to analyse the pressure-induced modification and functionality of myofibrillar proteins from pork meat pressurised at 200, 400, 600, or 800 MPa (10 min, 5 or 20 degrees C). Pressure at 400 MPa was found to be the threshold for loss of solubility, and the structural proteins, myosin and actin, lost their native solubility due to aggregation. The results from the extraction of proteins with different reagents targeting the disruption of specific molecular interactions suggested that pressure-induced aggregation was caused mainly by hydrogen bonding during pressurisation and not hydrophobic interactions nor disulphide cross-links. Furthermore, the soluble proteins were exposed to remarkable structural changes already at 200 MPa and lost their native functionality. The modification of the proteins in pressurised meat affected the water binding sites of the myofibrillar proteins and, thereby, the interactions between proteins and water molecules, and distribution between myofibrillar and extra-myofibrillar compartments. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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