THE SIZE AND SHAPE OF AMYLOPECTIN - A STUDY USING ANALYTICAL ULTRACENTRIFUGATION
THE SIZE AND SHAPE OF AMYLOPECTIN - A STUDY USING ANALYTICAL ULTRACENTRIFUGATION
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DOI:
10.1016/s0008-6215(00)90262-3
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发表时间:
1986-10-01
影响因子:
3.1
通讯作者:
MARSDEN, K
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作者:
LELIEVRE, J;LEWIS, JA;MARSDEN, K
Starch was isolated from a range of wheat cultivars grown under various conditions. The starches were known to produce pastes having contrasting rheological properties when heated. Solutions of the starch in dimethyl sulphoxide were investigated by analytical ultracentrifugation. Sedimentation coefficients and normalized weight-frequency distributions of limiting sedimentation-coefficients were determined. The sedimentation-coefficient data confirmed the weight-average molar mass of amylopectin in dimethyl sulphoxide to be .apprx. 107, irrespective of the source of the starch. The sedimentation-coefficient values were also combined with diffusion-coefficient data and evaluated according to hydrodynamic theory, this indicated that amylopectin has a flat-sheet or disc-like structure with semi-major and semi-minor axes of 45 and 1.2 nm, respectively. The distributions of sedimentation coefficients of the amylopectin samples were all similar, being unimodal, symmetrical, and having peak-width half-heights of .apprx. 60 S. The amylopectin obtained after removal of amylose by chemical fractionation was shown to be representative of the total amylopectin in starch.