Protein co-precipitates were prepared from whey powder and soybean flour using various extraction and co-precipitation techniques. The effect of extraction and co-precipitation on co-precipitate yield was investigated. Native and sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (Native-PAGE, SDS-PAGE) and light compound microscopy (LCM) were used to study the structure of the co-precipitates. The rheological and gelation properties of the co-precipitates were determined. Highest yield (45%) for NaOH/Isoelectric Point IEP-Heating-Cooling, co-precipitate was obtained using the following conditions of extraction; extraction temperature, 40°C; temperature of precipitation 95°C, and pH of precipitation was 4.5. The yield of co-precipitates was affected by chelating agents and pH of precipitation and temperature of precipitation. Native-PAGE showed that 2 new protein bands result from the interactions between whey and soybean proteins during preparation of the co-precipitate. SDS-PAGE showed that the new proteins dissociated to give the protein subunits of whey and soybean proteins. LCM results showed differences in microscopic structure between the whey and soybean protein precipitates and the protein co-precipitates. Gels were characterized by measurement of water holding capacity (WHC), gelation start temperature (GST) and denaturation start temperature (DST) and gel strength (GS). Gels (16%) from a protein co-precipitate Mixed Powder MP:NaOH/IEP-Cooling had higher WHC and GS than gels from whey protein precipitate, soybean protein precipitate and protein co-precipitates Mixed Extract ME:NaOH/IEP-Cooling and co-precipitates MP: and ME:NaOH/IEP-Heating-Cooling. The DST of protein co-precipitates was dependent on protein concentration and pH, while GST was relatively dependent on protein concentration.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.81245 |
| Date | January 2003 |
| Creators | Alu'datt, Muhammad Hussein |
| Contributors | Alli, Inteaz (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science (Department of Food Science and Agricultural Chemistry.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 002086025, proquestno: AAIMQ98832, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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