Abstract
Five different milk clotting preparations were fractionated on Sephadex G-100 and then tested for milk clotting activity and for proteolysis of denatured hemoglobin. Two preparations were also tested for proteolytic activity on casein. Proteolytic activities on hemoglobin were correlated with clotting ability of bovine rennet, calf rennet, and rennin-pepsin mixture at pH 1.6 and with Mucor miehei protease at pH 5.2. Modified Mucor miehei protease activities on hemoglobin correlated equally well at pH 1.6 and 5.2. Gel filtration through Sephadex G-100 and elimination of nonclotting fractions reduced the proteolytic activities on hemoglobin at pH 5.2 of calf rennet, bovine rennet, Mucor miehei protease, modified Mucor miehei protease, and rennin-pepsin mixture by 68.6, 88.5, 3.7, 53.7, and 91.2%, respectively. At pH 1.6, proteolysis was reduced by 54.2, 41.2, 51.8, 59.5, and 60.8%. Proteolytic activities of bovine rennet and renninpepsin mixture on casein were reduced by 59.8 and 72%, respectively.
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