Liha töötlemine
posed of intact and degraded filamin) has
This degradation product also has been been seen in cultured embryonic skeletal
shown to be present in μ-calpain-digested muscle cells and was attributed to calpain
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activity (Robson et al. 1995). Uytterhaegen the total water in muscle cells; depending on
et al. (1994) have shown increased degrada- the measurement system used, approximately
tion of filamin in muscle samples injected 0.5 g of water per gram of protein is esti-
with CaCl2, a process that has been shown to mated to be tightly bound to proteins. Since
stimulate proteolysis and postmortem tender- the total concentration of protein in muscle
ization (Wheeler et al. 1992; Harris et al. is approximately 200 mg/g, this bound water
2001)