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Department of Agricultural Chemistry, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan
ABSTRACT
The pH of buffers used for extraction of proteinases from Gouda-type cheese affected the kinds of extractable proteinases. Proteinases in the fractions extracted with pH 3.0, 4.0, and 6.0 buffers were separated by CM-Sephadex or diethylaminoethyl-cellulose. Two (F3-I and F3-II), three (F4-I, F4-II, and F4-III), and one (F6) proteinases were separated from the pH 3.0, 4.0, and 6.0 extracts. The F3-I was completely inhibited by pepstatin. The F3-I degradated
s1- and ß-casein into products with the same mobilities as
s1-casein(f24 to 199) and ß-casein(f1 to 189) peptide, respectively. The F3-II was strongly inhibited by diisopropyl-fluorophosphate and soybean trypsin inhibitor, whereas F3-II produced fragments with mobilities equal to those of
-caseins, that is, ß-casein(f29 to 209), ß-casein(f106 to 209), and ß-casein (f109 to 209). The F4-I was completely inhibited by pepstatin as well as F3-I, but changes in the polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis pattern of casein by F4-II were different from those by F3-I. Properties of F4-II and F4-III were similar to those of F3-I and F3-II; therefore, F4-II and F4-III are considered to be the same enzymes as F3-I and F3-II, respectively. The F6 was strongly inhibited by diisopropyl-fluorophosphate and ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid. In Gouda-type cheese, there are at least four proteinases, two of them being serine proteinases and the other two acid proteinases.
1 Department of Animal Science, Kyushu Tokai University, Choyo-son, Aso-gun Kumamoto 869-14.
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