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Identification and Characterization of Protein Glycosylation using Specific Endo- and Exoglycosidases
Published on: December 26, 2011
Nutritional characteristics of a neoglycoprotein, casein modified covalently by glucose
Y Furuichi1, T Oogida, C Mitsui
1Laboratory of Nutritional Chemistry, Faculty of Bioresources, Mie University, Tsu, Japan.
Abstract:
Glucose was combined covalently with the epsilon-amino groups of lysyl residues of bovine casein in the presence of sodium cyanoborohydride as a reducing reagent by reductive alkylation, forming stable secondary amine linkages. Solubility characteristics and nutritional values of the neoglycoprotein were examined. The degree of modification (%) of the glucosylated casein was 82.5. Solubility of the modified casein was increased by the attachment of glucose. The modification did not disturb the digestion of casein by pepsin or trypsin. Rat feeding experiments using 10% protein diets demonstrated that the protein efficiency ratio (PER) of the modified casein was 0.35 +/- 0.33 compared with 2.99 +/- 0.29 for the unmodified casein. When the modified casein was supplemented with L-lysine to equal the level of total lysine of unmodified casein, the PER value was increased to 2.21 +/- 0.29. Nitrogen balance experiments showed that the modified casein was digested completely. On the other hand, biological value and net protein utilization of the modified protein were shown to be considerably lower than those of the unmodified casein.
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