Definition of Lactalbumin

1. Noun. Albumin occurring in milk.

Generic synonyms: Albumen, Albumin

Definition of Lactalbumin

1. Noun. (protein) The albumin content of milk ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Lactalbumin

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Lactalbumin

1. Milk protein fraction containing _ lactoglobulin and _ lactalbumin. _ lactalbumin is the regulatory subunit of lactose synthetase: thought to be related to lysozyme C. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lactalbumin

lacrosses
lacrosstitutes
lacrymal
lacrymals
lacrymiform
lacs
lact-
lactaceous
lactacid oxygen debt
lactacidemia
lactacidosis
lactacystin
lactage
lactagogue
lactalbumin (current term)
lactalbumins
lactaldehyde
lactam
lactamase
lactamases
lactamic
lactamic acid
lactamide
lactamides
lactams
lactard
lactarene
lactarian
lactarians

Literary usage of Lactalbumin

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Milk Question by Milton Joseph Rosenau (1912)
"The lactalbumin in milk is very similar to the serum albumin of the blood and ... lactalbumin is coagulated by heat at 70° C., but not with dilute acids, ..."

2. Vital Factors of Foods: Vitamins and Nutrition by Carleton Ellis, Annie Louise Macleod (1922)
"Much better growth was secured with casein than with lactalbumin. They stated therefore: " We are forced to the conclusion that lactalbumin is a poorly ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1901)
"In the formula as it now stands (F 3.00; K 1.16 ; A 0.70, and S 6.10) the lactalbumin percentage contributed by the whey—0.41—is rather too important to be ..."

4. Production and Inspection of Milk by Earley Vernon Wilcox, Hawaii Agricultural Experiment Station (1912)
"lactalbumin.—In normal milk lactalbumin differs from blood albumin but in ... The average amount of lactalbumin in normal milk is .6 per cent but in ..."

5. Dairy Chemistry: A Practical Handbook for Dairy Chemists and Others Having by Henry Droop Richmond (1899)
"lactalbumin.—This albuminoid has the property characteristic of albumins of ... lactalbumin, like other albumins, is not precipitated by saturating its ..."

6. Organic Agricultural Chemistry (the Chemistry of Plants and Animals): A by Joseph Scudder Chamberlain (1916)
"This contains in solution the other two proteins lactalbumin and lactoglobulin. On heating the whey the albumin coagulates just as egg albumin does, ..."

7. A Text-book of Physiological Chemistry: For Students of Medicine and Physicians by Charles Edmund Simon (1904)
"... in association with the isolation of the soluble albumins. These, as I have already said, are lactalbumin and lactoglobulin. lactalbumin. ..."

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