Polymeric wheat proteins

More recently, direct coupling (hyphenation) of MALLS and RI detectors to flow FFF channel has been used to provide direct, accurate determination of molecular weights, Rg and conformation of polymeric wheat proteins. Problems such as overloading the FFF channel in order to provide sufficient signal for RI/MALLS have been addressed for both asymmetrical " and symmetrical" " FFF. 

Stevenson, S.G. You, S.G. Izydorczyk, M.S. Preston, K.R. Characterization of polymeric wheat proteins by flow fleld-flow fractionation/MALLS. J. Liq. Chromatogr. Relat. Technol. 2003, 26 (17), 2771-2781. 

Gluten is a complex mixture of gliadins (monomeric gluten proteins) and glutenins (polymeric gluten proteins) comprise about 80% of the proteins present in wheat grain. 

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The use of symmetrical flow FFF hyphenated with RI and MALLS detectors to assess the size and shape of sequentially dilute HAc extracted monomeric rich and sonicated HAc extracted polymeric rich wheat proteins was reported by Stevenson et al. - values at peak for the monomeric extract varied from 31,000 to 33,000 and increased to approximately 110,0(X) at later elution times. Results for all five varieties of wheat included in this study were similar for the monomeric wheat protein extracts. The profiles of polymeric extracts for the five wheat samples ranged from 225,000 to 300,000 at peak and increased to approximately 7x10 after 60 min of elution as shown in Fig. 2. values for the polymeric protein fraction showed relatively small changes with increasing elution time (M ), suggesting that the larger polymeric proteins tend toward a more compact structure than the lower polymeric proteins. 

Of additional significance to wheat protein research was the separation, using flow FFF, of a wheat polymeric protein extract sample collected from the void volume of... 

The wheat storage proteins without interchain disulfide bonds are monomeric and are termed gliadins, those with interchain disulfide bonds are polymeric and are called glutenins. Gliadins plus glutenins form gluten. Originally, it was assumed that the toxicity for CD patients was restricted to... 

You have learned that DNA is a two-stranded molecule that consists of many polymerized nucleotides. DNA acts as the master blueprint for the cell s activity because it contains the coded instructions for every protein made by the cell. In addition, DNA enables a cell to pass on these instructions to the next generation because it is duplicated before the cell divides. Newly formed cells receive exact copies of the parent cell s DNA. In this MiniLab, you will extract and examine the DNA from wheat-germ cells. 

A method has been developed by Mares and Stone (1973a) for the isolation of wheat endosperm cell walls using 70% aqueous ethanol as the isolation medium. Aqueous ethanol is used instead of an aqueous medium to minimize loss of water-soluble polymeric components present in the native walls. In this method the cell walls are separated from starch and protein on the basis of their size difference. The endosperm components present in a coarse wheat flour are suspended in 70% aqueous... 

Polymers derived from renewable resources (biopolymers) are broadly classified according to the method of production (1) Polymers directly extracted/ removed from natural materials (mainly plants) (e.g. polysaccharides such as starch and cellulose and proteins such as casein and wheat gluten), (2) polymers produced by "classical" chemical synthesis from renewable bio-derived monomers [e.g. poly(lactic acid), poly(glycolic acid) and their biopolyesters polymerized from lactic/glycolic acid monomers, which are produced by fermentation of carbohydrate feedstock] and (3) polymers produced by microorganisms or genetically transformed bacteria [e.g. the polyhydroxyalkanoates, mainly poly(hydroxybutyrates) and copolymers of hydroxybutyrate (HB) and hydroxyvalerate (HV)] [4]. 

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