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Record W4406098872 · doi:10.1016/j.ab.2025.115765

Imaged capillary isoelectric focusing and online mass spectrometry for milk whey protein characterization in dairy products

2025· article· en· W4406098872 on OpenAlexafffund
She Lin Chan, Teresa Kwok, Niusheng Xu, Tao Bo, Tiemin Huang

Bibliographic record

VenueAnalytical Biochemistry · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicProteins in Food Systems
Canadian institutionsAdvanced Electrophoresis Solutions (Canada)
FundersFedDev Ontario
KeywordsWhey proteinChromatographyChemistryRepeatabilityIsoelectric focusingMass spectrometryBovine milkCapillary electrophoresisElectrospray ionizationCaseinMilk proteinWhey protein isolateFood scienceBiochemistry

Abstract

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Characterizing major bovine milk proteins, including whey and casein, is of significant interest in the dairy industry. The diverse array of protein proteoforms can be different in terms of genetic variation, breed ways, lactation stage, and animal nutritional status. Current routine methods for bovine milk protein profiling are typically based on immunological techniques, infrared spectroscopy, slab gel isoelectric focusing, capillary electrophoresis, and high-performance liquid chromatography. However, there are obvious disadvantages of existing approaches including low throughput, tedious operation, unsatisfactory repeatability, and lack of robust quantitation capability. In this study, we present a novel approach that, for the first time, combines imaged capillary isoelectric focusing with mass spectrometry to separate and characterize whey proteins in milk products. The established method provided a rapid, repeatable, accurate, and simultaneous analysis of α-lactalbumin, β-lactoglobulin A, and β-lactoglobulin B within 10 min for diverse bovine milk samples. The methodology was systematically validated regarding repeatability of pI and peak area, sensitivity, linearity and recovery. The integration of high-resolution mass spectrometry with nano-electrospray ionization and icIEF has been pivotal in accurately identifying intact whey proteins in milk products. This approach has significantly enhanced the precise characterization of protein proteoforms in milk.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.003
Threshold uncertainty score0.005

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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 head0.013
GPT teacher head0.237
Teacher spread0.224 · 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

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

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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Published2025
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