Honey bee larval food jelly is a secretion of the hypopharyngeal and mandibular glands of young worker bees that take care of the growing brood in the hive. Food jelly is fed to all larvae (workers, drones and queens) and as royal jelly to the queen bee for her entire life. Up to 18% of the food jelly account for proteins the majority of which belongs to the major royal jelly protein (MRJP) family. These proteins are produced in the hypopharyngeal glands at a pH value of 7.0. Before being fed to the larvae, they are mixed with the fatty acids secreted by the mandibular glands of the worker bees resulting at a pH of 4.0 in the food jelly. Thus, MRJPs are exposed to a broad pH range from their site of synthesis to the actual secreted larval food. We therefore determined the pH-dependent stability of MRJP1, MRJP2 and MRJP3 purified from royal jelly using differential scanning fluorimetry. All MRJPs were much more stable at acidic pH values compared to neutral ones with all proteins showing highest stability at pH 4.0 or 4.5, the native pH of royal jelly.
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