Partial Purification and Characterization of Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) Calpains and an Evaluation of Their Role in Postmortem Proteolysis |
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| Authors: | G.H. Geesink J.D. Morton M.P. Kent R. Bickerstaffe |
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| Affiliation: | Authors are with the Molecular Biotechnology Group, Animal and Food Science Division, Lincoln University, Canterbury, New Zealand. Direct correspondence to Geert H. Geesink (E-mail: ). |
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| Abstract: | The involvement of calpains in the proteolysis of salmon muscle during refrigerated storage was investigated. Salmon m-calpain and μ-calpain were purified and partially purified, respectively. Salmon μ-calpain had similar calcium requirements and specific activity against casein as ovine m-calpain. Salmon μ-calpain had similar calcium requirements as ovine μ-calpain but a lower specific activity against casein than ovine μ-calpain. Autolysis patterns of both calpains differed from those of ovine calpains, and their activities were less than those of mammalian muscles. Calpastatin activity was relatively high and comparable to that of bovine muscles. Little proteolysis and fiber fragmentation resulted during refrigerated storage. However, proteolysis could be reproduced by incubation of myofibrils with m-calpain. |
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| Keywords: | calpain proteolysis muscle salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha |
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