Article Highlights• Thermal processing of meat cases proteins denaturation • Meat was processed by roasting and cooking in water at atmospheric pressure • By capillary electrophoresis was performed quantitative and qualitative proteins determination • Proteins during heat treatment showed a drastic decline in solubility with increasing temperature • Thermal processing by cooking had greater impact on proteins denatururation Abstract During the tests in this paper, meat processing was carried out at different temperatures in the range of 51 to 100 °C. The meat was processed by dry heat (roasting) and wet heat treatments (cooking) in water at atmospheric pressure. After heat treatment, myofibrillar proteins were extracted from solutions at constant ionic strength. Quantitative and qualitative determinations of protein fractions were performed by capillary electrophoresis. Myofibrillar proteins were also analized for fresh pork meat sample. Results obtained in fresh meat were compared with those recorded after roasting and cooking. In the fresh and thermally processed pork the following proteins were identified: myosin, light chain 3; myosin, light chain 2; troponin -C; troponin -I; myosin, light chain 1; tropomyosin; troponin -T; actin; desmin; α -actinin; C -protein; M -protein (M β ); M -protein (M α ); heavy meromyosin -HMM. For both methods of thermal processing, with increasing heat treatment temperature, concentration of soluble protein in the extract decreases rapidly after 51 °C. Cooking treatment had a more intense effect on the proteins change and denaturation than roasting.Protein denaturation in the most general form can be considered as a change in the structure of proteins, which occurs during thermal processing of meat. It is known that protein denaturation involves important changes in their structure, which may occur during thermal processing of meat. The temperature at which these changes occur is called denaturation temperature. In much of the literature, pertaining to the biochemistry of meat and studying the effect of heat treatment technology on the quality and charact-