Molecular and Microstructural Studies of Thermal Denaturation and Gelation of β-Lactoglobulins A and B

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1608-1618

  Boye, J I ^a,d   Ma, C Y ^a,b   Ismail, A ^c   Harwalkar, V R ^a   Kalab, M ^a  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d FOOD RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Denaturation; Differential scanning calorimetry; Electron microscopy; Gelation; Genetic variants; Infrared spectroscopy; Lactoglobulin

Indexed keywords

EID: 0642302370     PISSN: 00218561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jf960622x     Document Type: Article

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