Frozen storage of fish is known to enhance li
pid oxidation, resulting in the develo
pment of anun
pleasant rancid taste and odor. Frozen storage of fish is also known to reduce
protein solubility,and
proteins are ex
pected to be oxidatively modified; however, these oxidative mechanisms are
poorlyunderstood. Generally,
protein oxidation leads to a wide range of modifications; the most studiedbeing the formation of carbonyl grou
ps. The
present work shows, by UV s
pectro
phometricdetermination of
protein carbonyl grou
ps in rainbow trout muscle, that storage at -20
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C resulted ina 2-fold increase in
protein carbonylation com
pared to storage at -30 or -80
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C. Furthermore, low-salt-soluble
proteins in fish that were either fresh or stored for 3 years at -80
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C were found to havesimilar extents of carbonylation. Proteome analysis and two-dimensional immunoblotting of rainbowtrout low-salt- and high-salt-soluble
proteins gave a detailed descri
ption of the
protein carbonylation
pattern. Several carbonylated
proteins were identified by LC-MS/MS, such as nucleoside di
phos
phatekinase, adenylate kinase,
pyruvate kinase, actin, creatine kinase, tro
pomyosin, myosin light chains1 and 2, and myosin heavy chain. Furthermore, the results showed a reduced solubility of nucleosidedi
phos
phate kinase in fish stored at -20
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C for 2 years com
pared to fish stored at -80
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C. It wasobserved that low-abundant
proteins could be relatively more carbonylated than high-abundant
proteins, thereby indicating that some
proteins are more susce
ptible to oxidation than others, due toeither their cellular localization, amino acid sequence, or biochemical function.