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Milk Processing Affects Structure, Bioavailability and Immunogenicity of ?-lactoglobulin.

ABSTRACT: Bovine milk is subjected to various processing steps to warrant constant quality and consumer safety. One of these steps is pasteurization, which involves the exposure of liquid milk to a high temperature for a limited amount of time. While such heating effectively ameliorates consumer safety concerns mediated by pathogenic bacteria, these conditions also have an impact on one of the main nutritional whey constituents of milk, the protein ?-lactoglobulin. As a function of heating, ?-lactoglobulin was shown to become increasingly prone to denaturation, aggregation, and lactose conjugation. This review discusses the implications of such heat-induced modifications on digestion and adsorption in the gastro-intestinal tract, and the responses these conformations elicit from the gastro-intestinal immune system.

SUBMITTER: Broersen K

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7404694 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Milk Processing Affects Structure, Bioavailability and Immunogenicity of β-lactoglobulin.

Broersen Kerensa K

Foods (Basel, Switzerland) 20200703 7

Bovine milk is subjected to various processing steps to warrant constant quality and consumer safety. One of these steps is pasteurization, which involves the exposure of liquid milk to a high temperature for a limited amount of time. While such heating effectively ameliorates consumer safety concerns mediated by pathogenic bacteria, these conditions also have an impact on one of the main nutritional whey constituents of milk, the protein β-lactoglobulin. As a function of heating, β-lactoglobuli ...[more]

PMID: 32635246

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