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An Effective Method of Isolating Honey Proteins.

ABSTRACT: Honey is a natural sweetener composed mostly of sugars, but it contains also pollen grains, proteins, free amino acids, and minerals. The amounts and proportions of these components depend on the honey type and bee species. Despite the low content of honey protein, they are becoming a popular study object, and have recently been used as markers of the authenticity and quality of honey. Currently, the most popular methods of protein isolation from honey are dialysis against distilled water, lyophilization of dialysate, or various precipitation protocols. In this work, we propose a new method based on saturated phenol. We tested it on three popular polish honey types and we proved its compatibility with both 1D and 2D polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) and MS (mass spectrometry) techniques. The elaborated technique is also potentially less expensive and less time-consuming than other previously described methods, while being equally effective.

SUBMITTER: Bocian A

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6651845 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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An Effective Method of Isolating Honey Proteins.

Bocian Aleksandra A Buczkowicz Justyna J Jaromin Marcin M Hus Konrad Kamil KK Legáth Jaroslav J

Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) 20190629 13

Honey is a natural sweetener composed mostly of sugars, but it contains also pollen grains, proteins, free amino acids, and minerals. The amounts and proportions of these components depend on the honey type and bee species. Despite the low content of honey protein, they are becoming a popular study object, and have recently been used as markers of the authenticity and quality of honey. Currently, the most popular methods of protein isolation from honey are dialysis against distilled water, lyoph ...[more]

PMID: 31261846

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