Dataset of milk whey proteins of three indigenous Greek sheep breeds
Athanasios K. Anagnostopoulos,
Angeliki I. Katsafadou,
Vasileios Pierros,
Evangelos Kontopodis,
George C. Fthenakis,
George Arsenos,
Spyridon Ch. Karkabounas,
Athina Tzora,
Ioannis Skoufos,
George Th. Tsangaris
Affiliations
Athanasios K. Anagnostopoulos
Proteomics Research Unit, Center of Basic Research II, Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece
Angeliki I. Katsafadou
Proteomics Research Unit, Center of Basic Research II, Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece; Veterinary Faculty, University of Thessaly, Karditsa, Greece
Vasileios Pierros
Proteomics Research Unit, Center of Basic Research II, Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece
Evangelos Kontopodis
Proteomics Research Unit, Center of Basic Research II, Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece
George C. Fthenakis
Veterinary Faculty, University of Thessaly, Karditsa, Greece
George Arsenos
Laboratory of Animal Husbandry, School of Veterinary Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
Spyridon Ch. Karkabounas
Cell and Molecular Physiology Unit, Laboratory of Experimental Physiology, Medical School, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece
Athina Tzora
Department of Animal Production, Technological Educational Institute of Epirus, Arta, Greece
Ioannis Skoufos
Department of Animal Production, Technological Educational Institute of Epirus, Arta, Greece
George Th. Tsangaris
Proteomics Research Unit, Center of Basic Research II, Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece; Correspondence to: Proteomics Research Unit Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens 115 27 Athens Greece. Fax: +30 2106597545.
The importance and unique biological traits, as well as the growing financial value, of milk from small Greek ruminants is continuously attracting interest from both the scientific community and industry. In this regard the construction of a reference dataset of the milk of the Greek sheep breeds is of great interest. In order to obtain such a dataset we employed cutting-edge proteomics methodologies to investigate and characterize, the proteome of milk from the three indigenous Greek sheep breeds Mpoutsko, Karagouniko and Chios. In total, more than 1300 protein groups were identified in milk whey from these breeds, reporting for the first time the most detailed proteome dataset of this precious biological material. The present results are further discussed in the research paper “Milk of Greek sheep and goat breeds; characterization by means of proteomics” (Anagnostopoulos et al. 2016) [1].
