Functional polymorphisms : bovine calpastatin gene and meat tenderness
Calpastatin is widely known as an endogenous specific inhibitor to the ubiquitously expressed calpain an enzyme responsible for proteolysis of myofibrillar proteins during post-mortem degradation of muscle. The presence of the calpastatin polypeptide in muscle indicates that the activity of calpain...
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| Format: | Thesis (University of Nottingham only) |
| Language: | English |
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2012
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/12764/ |