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

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2016.06.040

Dataset of milk whey proteins of three indigenous Greek sheep breeds

Data Brief. 2016 Jun 29:8:877-80. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2016.06.040. eCollection 2016 Sep.

Affiliations

¹ Proteomics Research Unit, Center of Basic Research II, Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece.
² 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.
³ Veterinary Faculty, University of Thessaly, Karditsa, Greece.
⁴ Laboratory of Animal Husbandry, School of Veterinary Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
⁵ Cell and Molecular Physiology Unit, Laboratory of Experimental Physiology, Medical School, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece.
⁶ Department of Animal Production, Technological Educational Institute of Epirus, Arta, Greece.

Abstract

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].