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Institut fur Chemie und Physik, Bundesanstalt fur Milchforschung, D-2300 Kiel, Germany
ABSTRACT
The scientific literature on milk proteases, along with recent findings in the author's laboratory, are summarized and reviewed comprehensively. Emphasis is on detection of proteolytic enzymes and their activity, purification and kinetic characterization of the isolated enzymes, and technological problems associated with proteolytic enzymes in milk and milk products.
Two serine proteinases isolated from milk are compared with plasmin of bovine blood serum. Results from these comparisons strongly suggest that milk proteinase I and plasmin are identical. Proteolysis studies with cold stored milk indicate a direct relationship between
-casein formation and milk proteinase association with casein micelles.
1 Invited Paper presented at the 75th Annual Meeting of the American Dairy Science Association.
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