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SOME years ago I examined electrophoretically casein from cow's milk. It was established that this protein is not homogeneous1. The electrophoretic diagram showed three different boundaries which were assumed to correspond to three casein fractions, α-, β- and γ-casein. The fastest moving of these, the α-fraction, was isolated, and on analysis its nitrogen/phosphorus ratio was found to be higher than that of total casein.
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Mellander, Biochem. Z., 240 (1939).
See, for example, Damodaran, M., and Ramachandran, B. V., Biochem. J., 35, 122 (1941).
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MELLANDER, O. Electrophoretic and Enzymatic Fractionation of Casein from Human Milk. Nature 155, 604–605 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155604b0
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