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CEREAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 91, Issue 5, Pages 496-501Publisher
AACC INTERNATIONAL
DOI: 10.1094/CCHEM-07-13-0141-R
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China, People's Republic of China [31071629]
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In this study, the structure and selected properties of zeins extracted from corn gluten meal (CGM) pretreated by extrusion and removal of starch were investigated. The structure and properties of the zeins from pretreated CGM changed significantly. Pretreatments can decrease the extraction yields of zeins and change the granule shape and size of zein aggregates. The studies indicated that extrusion and removal of starch can significantly decrease the thermal enthalpy (Delta H-1 and Delta H-2) of zein from 1.94 +/- 0.20 to 0.19 +/- 0.10 and from 107.20 +/- 0.80 to 78.62 +/- 2.30 and J/g, respectively. The SDS-PAGE results confirmed that the molecular weight of zeins from CGM was 24,000 and 27,000, and the molecular weight of zeins did not change with the pretreatment. On the other hand, the circular dichroism spectroscopy results showed that the processing of extrusion and removal of starch can change the secondary structure content of beta-sheets and beta-turns; these results indicated that extrusion and removal of starch can significantly break the secondary structure of zeins. Furthermore, extrusion and removal of starch can change the sulfhydryl content of zeins. The obtained results provided some fundamental information that is useful for further modification of CGM to improve its functional properties and industrial applications.
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