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Evidence for Fibril-Like Structure in Bovine Casein Micelles

2007· article· en· W2140390393 on OpenAlexafffund
Robert W. Lencki

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Dairy Science · 2007
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicProteins in Food Systems
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Guelph
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsChemistryCaseinThioflavinMicelleFluorescenceCongo redNile redFibrilCrystallographySkimmed milkBiophysicsChromatographyBiochemistryAqueous solutionOrganic chemistryFood science

Abstract

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The addition of Congo red (CR) dye to diluted raw skim milk resulted in a red shift indicative of the presence of fibril-like structures. Thioflavin T (ThT) is another dye that very specifically binds to protein fibrils, and when added to undiluted raw skim milk, the classic 485 nm fluorescence peak of a ThT-fibril complex was observed. Repeating these experiments with various raw milk components showed that the CR red shift and ThT fluorescence peak were due to the presence of casein micelles, and to a lesser extent, sodium caseinate. Fluorescent peaks were also observed when ThT was added to solutions of purified alpha(S)- and kappa-casein, but not beta-casein, in 0.5 M HEPES buffer (pH = 6.8). The addition of 25 mM Ca(2+) had no effect on beta-casein fluorescence, and significantly reduced the kappacasein peak. However, adding 25 mM Ca(2+) to alpha(S)-casein produced a turbid solution and a 6-fold increase in fluorescence, indicating that the aggregates formed contain fibril-like structure. Casein micelle images obtained by transmission electron microscopy showed the presence of short (7 to 10 nm) fibers cross-linked by dense aggregate junction zones. The observed fibers closely resemble protofibrils, intermediate structures that are observed during the formation of amyloid fibrils.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.670
Threshold uncertainty score0.154

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.069
GPT teacher head0.308
Teacher spread0.240 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2007
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