期刊
BIOPOLYMERS
卷 101, 期 12, 页码 1154-1164出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/bip.22523
关键词
mucin; gastric; intestinal; SANS; SAXS; DLS
资金
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell-Matrix Research, University of Manchester [088785/Z/09/Z]
- Wellcome Trust
- Unilever Discovery
The structures of purified soluble porcine gastric (Muc5ac) and duodenal (Muc2) mucin solutions at neutral and acidic pH were examined using small-angle X-ray scattering and small-angle neutron scattering experiments. We provide evidence for the morphology of the network above the semidilute overlap concentration and above the entanglement concentration. Furthermore, we investigated the gelation of both types of mucin solutions in response to a reduction in pH, where we observed the formation of large-scale heterogeneities within the polymer solutions, typical of microphase-separated gels. The concentration dependence of the inhomogeneity length scale (Xi) and the amplitude of the excess scattering intensity [I-ex(0)] are consistent with previously studied gelled synthetic polymeric systems. The persistence lengths of the chains were found to be similar for both Muc5ac and Muc2 from Kratky plots of the neutron data (8 +/- 2 nm). (C) 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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