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Does β-lactoglobulin occur in human milk?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2009

Ghislaine Brignon ,
Abdessatar Chtourou  and
Bruno Ribadeau-Dumas
Ghislaine Brignon
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Biochimie et Technologie Laitières, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, CNRZ, 78350 Jouy-en-Josas, France
Abdessatar Chtourou
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Biochimie et Technologie Laitières, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, CNRZ, 78350 Jouy-en-Josas, France
Bruno Ribadeau-Dumas
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Biochimie et Technologie Laitières, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, CNRZ, 78350 Jouy-en-Josas, France
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Summary

Although β-lactoglobulin (β-lg) has been considered to be absent from human milk, recent results of other workers, based on immunological reactions between human milk and rabbit antiserum to bovine β-lg, suggest that this protein may be present. Although our results show similar immunological reactions, we consider that lactoferrin is responsible for these, as it was the only reactive protein species which could be prepared to homogeneity. Indeed two types of antibodies were found by ELISA test in the antisera to bovine β-lg. One of them would be able to bind loosely to human lactoferrin, but its binding sites would not be antigenic in the rabbit.

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Journal of Dairy Research , Volume 52 , Issue 2 , May 1985 , pp. 249 - 254
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Copyright © Proprietors of Journal of Dairy Research 1985

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