Ym. Feng et Ho. Hultin, SOLUBILITY OF THE PROTEINS OF MACKEREL LIGHT MUSCLE AT LOW IONIC-STRENGTH, Journal of food biochemistry, 21(6), 1997, pp. 479-496
Over 90% of the proteins of mackerel light muscle were soluble in solu
tions of physiological ionic strength or less. To accomplish this solu
bilization, it was necessary to extract certain proteins at moderate i
onic strength and neutral pH before extracting the rest of the myofibr
illar and cytoskeletal proteins in water. Six proteins were favorably
solubilized by sodium chloride solutions of moderate ionic strength at
neutral pH under conditions that allowed later dissolution of myofibr
illar and cytoskeletal proteins in water. The possibility is suggested
that three of these proteins were involved in preventing the solubili
zation in water of other myofibrillar and cytoskeletal proteins of mac
kerel light muscle, Based on molecular masses and relative abundance,
these proteins could possibly be M-protein (166 kDa), alpha-actinin (9
5 kDa) and desmin (56 kDa).