About presence of free phosphoserine in ripened cheese and in enzymatic hydrolysate of casein
1997
Noni, I. De | Pellegrino, L. | Resmini, P. | Ferranti, P.
Occurence of free phosphoserine (SerP) in ripened cheeses was investigated to clarify whether this amino acid can be directly released from casein by enzymatik attack. Free amino acids from cheese were separated by IEC or RP-HPLC and the peak of SerP always eluted close to unretained material and acidic components. Presence of these interferences suggests that the content of free SerP could be highly overestimated. These figures were dramatically lowered after a purification stepof the cheese extract on cationic column, but the chromatopgraphic separation of SerP was not yet interference-free. However, these values of free SerP are not significant on the basis of the total amount of free amino-acids (0.06%). The interfering compounds were characterized in Grana Padano cheese by FAB-MS and several low-MW peptides were found, the most abundant of which was the casein phosphopeptide (CPP) ss(16-22)3P. In vitro enzymatic hydrolysis of casein confirmed that accumulation of short-chain CPPs having the common structure X-SerP-SerP-SerP-Glu-Glu-X occurs, explaining incomplete recovery of the amino acids. The recovery increased from 89 % up to 96% and the content of Ser and Glu approached the theoretical value when the enzymatic hydrolysis was performed in presence of alkaline phosphatase.
Show more [+] Less [-]AGROVOC Keywords
Bibliographic information
This bibliographic record has been provided by ZB MED Nutrition. Environment. Agriculture