Claire Blayo

High-pressure methods have become an interesting tool of investigation of structural stability of proteins. They are used to study protein unfolding, but dissociation of oligomeric proteins can be addressed this way, too. HIV-1 protease, although an interesting object of biophysical experiments, has not been studied at high pressure yet. In this st...

The present review concerns homogenisation processing, and more particularly high-pressure homogenisation. Recent developments in high-pressure technology and the design of new homogenisation valves able to withstand pressures up to 350–400 MPa have indeed opened new opportunities to homogenisation processing in the dairy, pharmaceutical and cosmet...

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative pathology associated with aging characterized by the presence of senile plaques and neurofibrillary tangles that finally result in synaptic and neuronal loss. The major component of senile plaques is an amyloid-β protein (Aβ). Recently, we characterized the effects of a single intracerebroventricular...

Dispersions of phosphocaseins (PCs) containing (w/w) 2.5% proteins at pH 6.7 were processed using a ~ 15 L/h homogeniser with a high-pressure valve immediately followed by cooling devices. The effect of dynamic high-pressure (or ultra-high pressure homogenisation, UHPH) at 100–300 MPa and two initial temperatures (Tin = 14 °C or 34 °C) was investig...