Soluble wheat, acetylation

From recent literature it is known that the disintegration of lignified cell walls can be achieved by steam explosion treatments resulting in solubilization of partially depolymerized hemicelluloses [91,92]. The application of this method on wheat bran yielded feruloylated GAX with different feruUc acid content [93]. Partly depolymerized water-soluble, acetylated AGX was obtained from spruce wood by employing microwave treatment [94]. 

Groninger (38) succinylated fish myofibrillar protein and examined some of its chemical and functional properties. The fish myofibrillar proteins were succinylated at different levels and the degree of succinyla-tion was related to a functional property such as emulsification capacity. The protein efficiency ratio for succinylated protein was lower than that of untreated fish protein. Grant (39) succinylated wheat flour proteins and analyzed their solubility, viscosity, and chromatographic behavior. The effects of acetylation and succinylation on the physicochemical and functional properties of several plant proteins was reviewed recently by Kinsella and Shetty (6). 

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