Ivs. Dupin et al., Saccharomyces cerevisiae mannoproteins that protect wine from protein haze: Evaluation of extraction methods and immunolocalization, J AGR FOOD, 48(4), 2000, pp. 1086-1095
Yeast-derived haze-protective mannoprotein material (HPM) offers protection
to white wines from commercially unacceptable turbidities. HPM extraction
methods have been evaluated using three winemaking strains of Saccharomyces
cerevisiae. Digestion with Zymolyase of cells pretreated with DTE and EDTA
gave the greatest yields of active material. Heat treatment of cells with
SDS also released active material but the quantities were low. Treatment of
the cells in an autoclave or with a French pressure device was less effect
ive. A detailed study was conducted on the strain Maurivin PDM. SDS was not
necessary to extract HPM from PDM; boiling the cells for 5 min in Tris buf
fer was sufficient. HPM could also be extracted with EDTA during the pretre
atment of the cells prior to Zymolyase digestion. The data suggest that HPM
was noncovalently linked to other cell wall. components and loosely associ
ated with the cell wall. An immunological investigation showed that a speci
fic mannoprotein with haze-protective activity, HPF1, was located primarily
on the outermost; and innermost layers of the cell wall.