FOOD SCIENCE ›› 2012, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (1): 77-80.doi: 10.7506/spkx1002-6630-201201015

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Purification and Identification of Proline-rich Polypeptides from Bovine Colostrum

YU Fang1,LI De-long1,ZHANG Bo1,GAO Yan-ling1,ZHANG Shao-hui1,2,*   

  1. 1. School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai JiaoTong University, Shanghai 200240, China;
    2. Luh Bor. S. Research Center for Food Safety, Shanghai JiaoTong University, Shanghai 200240, China
  • Received:2011-01-24 Revised:2012-01-09 Online:2012-01-15 Published:2012-01-12
  • Contact: Shao-Hui ZHANG E-mail:yuflili@163.com

Abstract:

Bovine colostrum was extracted to obtain bioactive proline-rich polypeptides (PRP). The molecular weight and amino acid composition of PRP were analyzed by means of SDS-PAGE and an automated amino acid analyzer, respectively. Reversed-phase high performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC) was employed to purify PRP. The results showed that the proline content in PRP was as high as 20%. The molecular weights of principal components were in the range of 5-25 kD as determined by SDS-PAGE. RP-HPLC showed that major spectral peaks were eluted by 37%-45% acetonitrile. As a result, PRP with a purity of 96.7% was obtained.

Key words: proline-rich polypeptide, molecular weight, amino acid composition, reversed-phase chromatography

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