Journal
JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY
Volume 49, Issue 10, Pages 4553-4561Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jf001423n
Keywords
hen egg white; protein; SDS-PAGE; native-PAGE; IEF; two-dimensional gel electrophoresis; immunodetection; proteomic
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The hen egg white protein composition has not yet been fully defined. To improve the knowledge of this biological fluid, the most usual and recently developed electrophoretic methods have been used: SDS-PAGE, native-PAGE, isoelectric focusing (IEF), and 2-dimensional electrophoresis (2DE). Seven of the major known proteins were thus identified in at least one electrophoretic system. Isoforms of ovotransferrin, ovalbumin, and ovomucoid were visualized when pI was used for the separation. Two-dimensional electrophoresis allowed separation of a very large number of spots. In each of the four systems, some components were revealed but not identified, and unknown spots were particularly numerous with 2DE. With this technique, many spots corresponding to small, acidic proteins were highlighted, among which was the Ch21 protein, whose presence in hen egg white was thus confirmed. This study thus constitutes, to our knowledge, the first proteomic investigation of hen egg white.
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