Myosin is abundant in muscle protein and plays a key role in gel development in fish and meat products. Altering the pH of meat products could result in the attainment of the desired gel strength at a given temperature [162]. For instance, textural development of fermented fish and meat products was associated with lowering pH during fermen- tation [115]. Subjecting catfish myosin to pH 11.0–12.0 and subsequent readjustment to pH 7.3 increased the elastic
modulus of thermally treated myosin [110]. In addition, alkaline solubilization processing could also produce higher gelling quality than conventionally washed surimi from Atlantic menhaden [79, 105]. Some researchers sug- gested that conformational changes in the myofibrillar proteins during alkaline processing may expose more functional groups for transglutaminase-induced crosslink- ing and other protein–protein interactions [77, 78, 104]. Nevertheless, the initial washing at pH 5.5 was beneficial for suitable treatment for kamaboko gels from sardine [66].