HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS		QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced] Author: Keyword(s): Year:  Vol:  Page:

This Article Full Text (PDF) Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Similar articles in this journal Similar articles in PubMed Alert me to new issues of the journal Download to citation manager Citing Articles Citing Articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by Schaffenberg, R. A. Search for Related Content PubMed PubMed Citation Articles by Schaffenberg, R. A.

Milk Proteins¹

Variants of Milk Proteins and their Pattern of Inheritance

National Institute for Research in Dairying, Shinfield, Reading, England

ABSTRACT

In recent years our knowledge of the synthesis and structure of proteins in general has increased at a breath-taking rate. The ingenious ways in which nucleic acids direct the assembly of amino acids into protein chains are rapidly being elucidated, as will be discussed by Dr. Larson in his contribution to this Symposium (20), and the details of the three-dimensional structure of proteins begin to emerge through the application of elegant techniques of X-ray crystallography. New methods or improvements in old-established techniques have bettered the tools of the protein biochemist, and one of these—electrophoresis—has enabled us in recent years—nine, to be exact—to open up a new field of milk protein research, the field which it is my task to review. Electro-phoretic separations of proteins can now be achieved in ways which are very simple and, at the same time, very searching, by working not—as was originally done—in free solution, but in supporting media, such as filterpaper or gels, e.g. of agar, starch, or polyaerylamide.

¹ Presented at the 59th Annual Meeting of the American Dairy Science Association, University of Arizona, Tucson, June, 1964.