Characterization of proteinase recovered from Pacific whiting surimi wash water

Pacific whiting surimi wash water (SWW) proteinase was recovered by ohmic heating, ultrafiltration, and freeze-drying. By these processes, 5.9-fold purification was achieved. The most efficient step was ohmic heating, which concentrated the proteinase by 4.8 fold. Specific activity of the recovered SWW proteinase on casein and Z-Phe-Arg-NMec was 28.2 and 0.17 U/mg protein, respectively. The SWW proteinase showed good hydrolytic activity towards casein, acid-denatured hemoglobin and myofibrils, Acidification increased specific activity an all substrates tested but reduced thermal stability. beta-Mercaptoethanol, dithiothreitol and urea enhanced activity against Z-Phe-Arg-NMec. Proteinase activity on Z-Phe-Arg-NMec showed an optimum pH of 4.0. The recovered proteinase showed 18.5% residual activity after 7 week storage at 4C.