Abstract:Different concentration of γ-polyglutamic acid were added to chicken myofibrillar protein, and the effects of γ-polyglutamic acid on the function of chicken myofibrillar protein were studied. The study found that with the increase of the concentration of γ-polyglutamic acid, surface hydrophobicity of myofibrillar protein first decreases and then increases, and reached the minimum when the concentration of γ-polyglutamic acid was 0.6‰; the solubility, emulsification, the gelatin of hardness, springiness and water holding capacity were first increases and then decreases, and respectively reached the maximum when the concentration of γ-polyglutamic acid was 0.6‰, but γ-polyglutamic acid on gelatin whiteness had little effect. The change of rheological properties indicated that γ-PGA had a certain effect on the formation of myofibrillar protein gelatin. SDS-PAGE studies indicated that the cross-linking reaction between γ-polyglutamic acid and myofibrillar protein.