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Proteolysis in Milk Associated with Increasing Somatic Cell Counts

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

ABSTRACT

Individual cow samples were collected and preserved with potassium dichromate. Somatic cells counts were determined. Tyrosine value was used as an index of proteolysis. Sixty-six samples ranged in somatic cell count from < 50,000 to > 2,000,000/ml. Initial milk tyrosine values and tyrosine values for milks incubated for 24 h at 37°C showed proteolytic activity increased with increasing somatic cell count. The increase in proteolysis in preserved milk refrigerated for 72 h at 6.7°C was over 1.5 times greater in milks with > 1,000,000 cells/ml than in milks with < 60,000 cells/ml. When preserved milks were laboratory pasteurized, cooled, and stored at 6.7°C for 14 d, some proteolytic activity was detected in milks at all concentrations of somatic cells, and proteolysis increased as somatic cell counts increased. Laboratory-pasteurized samples of milk with various somatic cell counts were also incubated at 30°C for 3 and 6 h to duplicate the proteolysis that could occur during the ripening, coagulation, cutting, and cooking steps of cheese making. Again, the greatest increases in tyrosine were in milks with high somatic cell count. Protease(s) associated with elevated somatic cell counts will damage raw milk quality upon storage, pasteurized fluid milk over shelf-life, and milk during cheese making.

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