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Agents of Change

Enzymes in Milk and Dairy Products

  • Presents an expansive overview of the enzymology of milk and other dairy products, focusing on the use of indigenous and endogenous enzymes in milk and exogenous enzymes in cheese processing
  • Focuses on the main families of indigenous enzymes as well as their potential significance in the mammary gland plus the technological significance for the properties of dairy products
  • Studies the implications for the manufacture and ripening of cheese plus the use of enzymes such as alkaline phosphatase for measuring heat treatment in milk

Part of the book series: Food Engineering Series (FSES)

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
  2. The Plasmin System in Milk and Dairy Products

    • Thomas C. France, James A. O’Mahony, Alan L. Kelly
    Pages 11-55
  3. Lysosomal and Other Indigenous Non-plasmin Proteases in Bovine Milk

    • Lotte Bach Larsen, Søren Drud-Heydary Nielsen, Lizandra Paludetti, Alan L. Kelly
    Pages 57-84
  4. Phosphatases in Milk

    • Nana Y. Farkye
    Pages 85-99
  5. Antimicrobial Enzymes in Milk, and Their Role in Human Milk

    • Nidhi Bansal, Jie Zhang, Zhengzheng Zou
    Pages 101-126
  6. Milk and Other Glycosidases

    • Anne Vuholm Sunds, Søren Drud-Heydary Nielsen, Lotte Bach Larsen, Nina Aagaard Poulsen
    Pages 163-180
  7. The Enzymology of Non-bovine Milk

    • Marzia Albenzio, Antonella Santillo, Golfo Moatsou
    Pages 181-208
  8. The Enzymology of Human Milk

    • Lauren E. Chan, Robert L. Beverly, David C. Dallas
    Pages 209-243
  9. Lipases from Milk and Other Sources

    • Hilton C. Deeth
    Pages 245-267
  10. Heat-Stable Microbial Peptidases Associated with the Microbiota of Raw Milk

    • Claudia Glück, Timo Stressler, Lutz Fischer
    Pages 269-290
  11. The Heat Stability of Indigenous and Bacterial Enzymes in Milk

    • Britta Graf, Johannes Schäfer, Zeynep Atamer, Jörg Hinrichs
    Pages 291-310
  12. The Role of Proteases in the Stability of UHT-Treated Milk

    • Nivedita Datta, Alan Kelly
    Pages 311-347
  13. Milk-Clotting Enzymes

    • Anders Andrén
    Pages 349-362
  14. Enzymes in Cheese Ripening

    • Ylva Ardö
    Pages 363-395
  15. Enzyme Modified Cheese

    • Zafer Erbay, Pelin Salum, Kieran N. Kilcawley
    Pages 397-416
  16. Enzymatic Protein Cross-Linking in Dairy Science and Technology

    • Norbert Raak, Harald Rohm, Doris Jaros
    Pages 417-445
  17. The Production of Bioactive Peptides from Milk Proteins

    • Thanyaporn Kleekayai, Maria Cermeño, Richard J. FitzGerald
    Pages 447-497
  18. Reducing Allergenicity by Proteolysis

    • Katrine Lindholm Bøgh, Jeppe Madura Larsen
    Pages 499-523

About this book

The enzymology of milk and other products is of enormous significance for the production and quality of almost every dairy product. Milk itself is a complex biological fluid that contains a wide range of enzymes with diverse activities, some of which have identifiable functions while others are present as an accidental consequence of the mechanism of milk secretion. Over time milk enzymology has become an incredibly essential component of milk and other dairy product production, and with advancing technology and processing techniques, its importance is at its peak. 

Dairy Enzymology presents an expansive overview of the enzymology of milk and other dairy products, focusing on the use of indigenous and endogenous enzymes in milk and exogenous enzymes in cheese processing. A full section is dedicated to the enzymology of bovine milk, focusing on the main families of indigenous enzymes as well as their potential significance in the mammary gland plus the technological significance for the properties of dairy products. Implications for the manufacture and ripening of cheese plus the use of enzymes such as alkaline phosphatase for measuring heat treatment in milk are explored in full, and the role of milk protease plasmin and other indigenous enzymes in the age-gelation is focused on. Further sections focus on enzymes found in raw milk and enzymes deliberately added for manufacture or modification of properties and the manufacture of food ingredients from dairy-derived ingredients. The key bacterial families are discussed in depth as well as their known contributions to the quality of dairy products. 

With its comprehensive scope and fully up-to-date coverage of dairy product enzymology, this text is a singular source for researchers looking to understand this essential dairy processing aspect. 


Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Food and Nutritional Sciences, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

    Alan L. Kelly

  • Department of Food Science, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

    Lotte Bach Larsen

About the editors

Alan Kelly is a Professor in the School of Food and Nutritional Sciences at University College Cork in Cork, Ireland

Lotte Bach Larsen is a Professor in the Department of Food Science at Aarhus University in Tjele, Denmark

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Agents of Change

  • Book Subtitle: Enzymes in Milk and Dairy Products

  • Editors: Alan L. Kelly, Lotte Bach Larsen

  • Series Title: Food Engineering Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55482-8

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-55481-1Published: 08 January 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-55484-2Published: 08 January 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-55482-8Published: 07 January 2021

  • Series ISSN: 1571-0297

  • Series E-ISSN: 2628-8095

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 551

  • Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations, 35 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Food Science, Organic Chemistry, Food Microbiology

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Softcover Book USD 219.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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Hardcover Book USD 249.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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