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http://dx.doi.org/10.7744/cnujas.2011.38.3.459

Theoretical molecular aspects of colloidal calcium phosphate in bovine milk  

Choi, Jong-Woo (Department of Food Science, The Pennsylvania State University)
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Korean Journal of Agricultural Science / v.38, no.3, 2011 , pp. 459-464 More about this Journal
Abstract
A simplified model for the colloidal calcium phosphate (CCP) nanocluster was developed from an active role of phosphate in the precipitation of casein (CN)/Ca mixtures and the composition of casein micelles (CM). The possible shape of the CCP nanocluster was selected as a tetrahedron, and we estimated that 4 CN molecules were involved in crosslinking a single CCP nanocluster. Similar values were obtained for the number of CN molecules involved in stabilizing the nanocluster when the number of CNs attached onto each nanocluster surface was deduced from the composition of CM. If one phosphoserine cluster consisted of 3 phosphoserine residues, the theoretical molecular weight and volume for the nanocluster were estimated to be 4,898 g/mol and 2.88 $nm^3$, respectively. It was also shown that the position of Ca present in our model were reasonably located to accommodate the serine phosphate in CN molecule.
Keywords
Colloidal calcium phospahe; Phosphoserine cluster; Casein micelle;
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