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BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 93, Issue 3, Pages 960-968Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.107.106385
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The structure of thin casein films prepared with spin-coating is investigated as a function of the calcium concentration. Grazing incidence small-angle x-ray scattering and atomic force microscopy are used to probe the micelle structure. For comparison, the corresponding casein solutions are investigated with dynamic light-scattering experiments. In the thin films with added calcium three types of casein structures, aggregates, micelles, and mini-micelles, are observed in coexistence with atomic force microscopy and grazing incidence small-angle x-ray scattering. With increasing calcium concentration, the size of the aggregates strongly increases, while the size of micelles slightly decreases and the size of the mini-micelles increases. This effect is explained in the framework of the particle-stabilizing properties of the hairy layer of kappa-casein surrounding the casein micelles.
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