Our populations are aging. Some experts predict that 30% of hospital beds will soon be
occupied by osteoporosis patients. Statistics show that 20% of patients suffering from an …

Modern human diet and changes in lifestyle are emerging as a challenge in developing
countries resulting to endless ailments. Thus, in modern spectra of human health, bioactive …

Proteolysis in dairy lactic acid bacteria has been studied in great detail by genetic,
biochemical and ultrastructural methods. From these studies the picture emerges that the …

Publisher Summary The casein micelle is an important and characteristic macromolecular
assembly of mammalian biology, occurring in all milks that are examined. They form a …

Production of recombinant proteins in bacteria is limited by the formation of cytoplasmic
aggregates (inclusion bodies or “IBs”). This review summarizes what is known about why IBs …

Milk caseins stabilize calcium and phosphate ions and make them available to the neonate.
Tryptic digestion of the caseins yields phosphopeptides from their polar N-terminal regions …

Emulsion forms a major part of many processed food formulations. During the past few
decades, the physico-chemical properties of oil-in-water emulsions under various food …

This subject is reviewed under the following headings: protein composition of milk (overall
composition and occurrence of genetic variants); isolation and identification of the caseins …

Caseins are members of a class of proteins with extremely open and flexible conformations.
Here, we consider what features of their sequences are important in maintaining such a …

Milk protein is consumed widely as a human food, particularly in developed countries. The
long history of its inclusion in the human diet and the relative ease with which the major …