Abstract:
We extracted different solubility proteins and structure proteins from Nile tilapia (
Oreochromis niloticus) fillets during iced storage to investigate the change of their muscle proteins. The degradation of total soluble, water soluble, high-salt soluble and low-salt soluble proteins was analyzed by SDS-PAGE. The high-salt soluble protein content declined from 84.99 mg · g
-1 to 49.47 mg · g
-1; water-soluble protein declined from 72.27 mg · g
-1 to 18.37 mg · g
-1; low salt soluble protein dropped from 11.15 mg · g
-1 to 3.39 mg · g
-1. In the three different structures of proteins, the decline of myofibrillar protein content is most obvious (decreased from 122.10 mg · g
-1 to 48.65 mg · g
-1,
P < 0.05), and the content of myosinogen decreased from 37.79 mg · g
-1 to 26.57 mg · g
-1 (
P < 0.05), while myostromin had no obvious change (
P>0.05). The decrease of myosin heavy chain, actin, tropomyosin and some other protein bands in SDS-PAGE patterns indicates degradation of these proteins. Some new bands appeared at the last phase of storage.