Properties of glutelin from mature and developing rice grain

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Abstract

Aminograms and SDS-polyacrylamide electrophoresis of milled rice glutelin of 12 Oryza sativa samples showed similar composition and ratio of 1 : 1 : 1 for subunits with MW 38 000:25 000: 16 000, indicating little possibility of finding variants of rice glutelins. Fractionation of S-cyanoethyl glutelin of 3 rices on polyacrylamide-agarose gels gave MW subunits differing in amino acid analysis of which the subunits with MW > 38 000 had the highest lysine content. Of the solubility fractions of endosperm glutelin, the fraction extracted by 0.5 M NaCl-0.6 % β-mercapto-ethanol-0.5% SDS was closest to glutelin in properties. In the developing grain of two varieties, appearance of protein bodies and rapid synthesis of glutelin from 7 days after flowering onward coincided with a drop in lysine content and appearance of MW 38 000 and 25 000 of crude glutelin. The MW 38 000 subunit is thus unique to endo-sperm glutelin.

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Presented in part at the 37th Annual Meeting of the Institute of Food Technologists, Philadelphia, 5–8 June, 1977.

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