Liha töötlemine
Lonergan 1999). degradation is truly directly linked to tender-
ization or is simply an indicator of overall
postmortem proteolysis remains to be
Desmin
determined.
It has been suggested that desmin, an inter-
mediate filament protein (O’Shea et al. 1979;
Filamin
Robson 1989) localized at the periphery of
the myofibrillar Z-disk in skeletal muscle Filamin is a large (Mr = 245,000 in skeletal
(Richardson et al. 1981), plays a role in the and cardiac muscle) actin-binding protein
development of tenderness (Taylor et al. that exists in numerous cell types (Loo et al.
1995; Huff-Lonergan et al. 1996a; Boehm et 1998; Thompson et al. 2000; van der Flier et
al. 1998; Melody et al. 2004). The desmin al. 2002)