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Purification and Separation of Multiple Forms of Lactophorin from Bovine Milk Whey and Their Immunological and Electrophoretic Properties

Department of Animal Science, Utsunomiya University, Utsunomiya 321, Japan

ABSTRACT

Lactophorin is designated as a glycoprotein, which is present in bovine milk whey and reacts to the antiserum of the soluble glycoprotein of bovine milk fat globule membrane. The lactophorin was purified by DEAE-cellulose (pH 7.7), Sephadex G-100, and then Bio Gel A-15m from the component-3 fraction of the proteose-peptone fraction of bovine milk whey. The purified lactophorin was separated into seven components by DEAE-cellulose chromatography at pH 8.6.

The seven components (LP-1 to -7) of lactophorin were almost homogeneous, but the respective bands were somewhat broad and varied in mobilities on disc electrophoresis. The seven lactophorin components fused completely to the antisoluble glycoprotein of milk fat globule membrane on double immunodiffusion but showed different mobilities of precipitation lines on immunoelectrophoresis. The results indicated that lactophorin consisted of multiple forms but had a common set of antigenic determinant groups against anti-soluble glycoprotein.