1970 Volume 41 Issue 5 Pages 262-269
Temperature-sensitive (TS-) casein was obtained by gel filtration on a Sephadex G-100 column (2.8×47.5cm) from the temperature sensitive fraction in casein. The molecular weight of the TS-casein was estimated as 32, 000 from the elution volume. It consisted mainly of two components observed by starch gel electrophoresis. Amino acid determination showed high proline and leucine contents (15.0% and 14.06% respectively of the total amount of detected amino acids) as compared with the whole casein. When the solution of TS-casein was warmed at rates of 1.5°C/min. and 3.2°C/min., similar turbidity curves were obtained, while a rate of 0.78°C/min. resulted in a somewhat higher turbidity. A stepwise elevation of temperature showed a rapid increase of turbidity within 40 seconds following the temperature change. Addition of chemicals, NaCl, MgCl2, sodium citrate, CaCl2, 2-mercaptoethanol and formalin, excepting formalin gave no remarkable alteration on the turbidity. Frozen storage (at -17°C for 19 days) resulted in a slight decrease of turbidity.
The contents of this paper had been reported at the 55th annual meeting of Japanese Zootechnical Science (1968).