Influence of the coagulant level on early proteolysis in ovine cheese-like systems made with sterilized milk and Cynara cardunculus

Silva, S. V.; Malcata, F. X.

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Silva, S. V.

Malcata, F. X.

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The effect of coagulant level on the quality and quantity of protein breakdown during the first 24 h of ripening of cheese-like systems, manufactured with sterilized ovine milk using crude aqueous extracts of Cynara cardunculus as coagulant, was experimentally assessed. Urea-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis was performed on both water-soluble and water-insoluble cheese extracts to monitor the casein degradation pattern; the ripening extension index and the ripening depth index were thus calculated. Peptides from the water-soluble fraction were isolated by reverse-phase, high-performance liquid chromatography and partially sequenced by Edman degradation. Higher residual coagulant levels in curdled milk led to earlier breakdown of caseins, as expected. The primary cleavage sites were Phe105-Met106 in k-casein, Phe23-Val24 in s1-casein, and Leu127-Thr128, Ser142-Trp143, Leu165-Ser166, and Leu190-Tyr191 in β-casein.