The BRCA1 gene has been placed in retro viruses and injected into cancer cells in mice. The BRCA1 protein is produced in the mice tumors and kills the cancer cells. Butyrophilin is thought to be involved in milk fat secretion. In addition, Bph is related to the immunoglobulin family of proteins and may be involved in immune recognition of foreign substances entering the body. We have recent evidence to suggest that Bph can act as an enzyme that transfers phosphorous groups to tyrosine residues in proteins.
Proteins exert their actions after binding to phosphorous.
The proteins described above may be important to human health. We do not know as yet whether or not the proteins associated with milk fat and the MFGM are destroyed during short term high temperature pasteurization of milk. It may be possible to fortify milk with these proteins. If future research shows that the novel proteins described above are destroyed by pasteurization, then milk can be supplemented with these proteins after pasteurization. An alternative to this would be isolating these components from milk fat , concentrating them and producing a pill.