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The Effects of Enzyme Hydrolysis on the Properties of Potato, Cassava and Amaranth Starches
Characterization of soluble amaranth and soybean proteins based on fluorescence, hydrophobicity, electrophoresis, amino acid analysis, circular dichroism, and differential scanning calorimetry measurements
Intrinsic fluorescence (IF), surface hydrophobicity (S-o,), electrophoresis, amino acid analysis, circular dichroism (CD), and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) were used to study folded and unfolded soluble proteins. from Amaranthus hypochondriacus (A. h.) and soybean (S). Globulin (Glo) and albumin subfractions (Alb-1 and Alb-2) were extracted from A. h. and S and denatured with urea. Electrophoretic and functional properties indicated a significant correlation between soluble protein fractions from soybean and amaranth. The protein fractions shared some common electrophoretic bands as well as a similar amino acid composition. The larger percent of denaturation in protein fractions, which is associated with enthalpy and the number of ruptured hydrogen bonds, corresponds to disappearance of alpha -helix. The obtained results provided evidence of differences in their secondary and tertiary structures. The most stable was Glo followed by the Alb-2 fraction. Predicted functional changes in model protein systems such as pseudocereals and legumes in response to-processing conditions may be encountered in pharmaceutical and food industries. These. plants can be a substitute for some cereals
Análisis de las revistas femeninas / A. García Romero, V. Gorinstein Kushner, S. Shamai Ezban.
Tesis de Lic. en Ciencias de la Comunicación, Universidad Anáhua
Protein fractions and their amino acid composition of pseudocereals related to nitrogen supply
Characterisation of soluble amaranth and soybean proteins based on fluorescence, hydrophobicity, electrophoresis, amino acid analysis, circular dichroism and diffential scanning calorimetry
Characterisation of pseudocereal and cereal proteins by protein and amino acid analyses
Maize, wheat, amaranth, rice and soybean were screened for protein content. Alcohol-soluble (A1 and A2) and glutelin (G1 and G2) fractions were isolated and compared in terms of their amino acid and protein compositions. The average proportions of nitrogen content between total alcohol-soluble proteins (TASP) and total glutelins (TGlu) in the pseudocereals amaranth and soybean were about 1.8:26.9 and 14.9:12.3 respectively. In the cereals maize and wheat these proportions were 47.8:33.2 and 44.7:31.2 respectively. The sum of essential amino acids was 47.6 and 60.3g per 100g protein in amaranth and soybean respectively. The highest contents of methionine, lysine and arginine were found in the pseudocereals. The relatively high content of essential amino acids shows that pseudocereals could be used as a nutrient substitute for cereals. (C) 2002 Society of Chemical Industry
Diffusive author(s), cohesive author: Analysis of S/N (1994)
This study indicates the ways in which various aspects of the author(s) are brought forth in Dumb type’s performance art, the S/N production. Previous research has suggested a non-hierarchical organization of Dumb type and the absence of a “privileged author” in Dumb type’s collaborative work, S/N. However, the results that I have investigated from member’s interviews on the creative process of S/N along with my analysis of the recorded images of S/N, indicate a different aspect of the author(s). First, S/N was created through, so to speak, the collective ideas of the members of Dumb type. Further, S/N has at least nine quotations from previous performances, installations, and printed writings, besides the work-in-progress technique. Explicating one of the “author functions” as given by Michel Foucault, each text has plural subjects of the author. However, it has been revealed from members’ interviews that Teiji Furuhashi had a decision-making role in selecting the members’ ideas within the performance. Since then, S/N has had plural subjects of creation; however, Furuhashi is one of the subjects of creation along with the “privileged author.” S/N has plural authors (diffusive authors) yet at the same time, it has a “privileged author,” Teiji Furuhashi (cohesive author)
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
The present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Comparison of the contents of the main antioxidant compounds and the antioxidant activity of white grapefruit and his new hybrid
The aim of this study was to compare the main antioxidant compounds content and the antioxidant activity of white grapefruit and his new hybrid (Jaffa Sweeties). Total phenols were measured colorimetrically using the Folin-Ciocalteu reagent, phenolic acids-by HPLC, anthocyanins and flavonoids-spectrophotometrically. The antioxidant activity of these fruits was determined by total antioxidant activity (TAA) and nitric oxide (NO) methods. Trans-hydroxycinnamic acids (caffeic, p-coumaric, ferulic, and sinapic) were more abundant in white grapefruit than in his hybrid. However, on a fresh weight basis, grapefruit's hybrid has a higher total phenol content as well as a higher antioxidant capacity in comparison with white grapefruit. A linear relationship existed between TAA and anthocyanins (R-2 = 0.8068), TAA and flavonoids (R-2 = 0.9320) and TAA and total phenols (R-2 = 0.9446). Our findings indicate the following: (1) Both studied fruits contain a high concentration of natural antioxidants that have not only a high antioxidant activity, but also a good antioxidant quality. (2) The total phenol content and the antioxidant potential are significantly higher in the grapefruit hybrids than in white grapefruits. (C) 2003 Swiss Society of Food Science and Technology. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved
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