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Modification of glutenin and associated changes in digestibility due to methylglyoxal during heat processing Yaya Wang, Wang junping, Shujun Wang, Jun Guo, and Shuo Wang J. Agric. Food Chem., Just Accepted Manuscript • DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.9b04337 • Publication Date (Web): 03 Sep 2019 Downloaded from pubs.acs.org on September 3, 2019
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Modification of glutenin and associated changes in
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digestibility due to methylglyoxal during heat processing
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Yaya Wanga, Junping Wang a*, Shujun Wanga, Jun Guoa, Shuo Wang ab*
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Technology, State Key Laboratory of Food Nutrition and Safety
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29 The Thirteenth Road, Tianjin Economy and Technology Development Area,
College of Food Science and Engineering, Tianjin University of Science &
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Tianjin, 300457, P.R. China
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University, Tianjin 300071, China
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*Corresponding Authors:
[email protected]; Fax: (+86 22) 85358445; Tel:
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(+86 22) 85358445
Tianjin Key Laboratory of Food Science and Health, School of Medicine, Nankai
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Abstract
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Glutenin is the main protein of flour and is a very important source of protein
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nutrition for humans. Methylglyoxal (MGO) is an important product of the Maillard
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reaction that occurs during the hot-processing of flour products, and it reacts with
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glutenin to facilitate changes in glutenin properties. Here, the effects of MGO on
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glutenin digestion during the heating process were investigated using a simulated
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MGO-glutenin system. MGO significantly reduced the digestibility of glutenin. The
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structure MGO-glutenin and physicochemical properties were studied to understand
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the mechanism of the decrease of digestibility. These data suggest that changes in
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digestibility were caused by decreases in surface hydrophobicity and increases in
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disulfide bonds. MGO induces strong aggregation of glutenin after heating that led to
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the masking of cleavage sites for proteases. Moreover, carbonyl oxidation induced by
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MGO leads to intermolecular cross-linking of glutenin that increasingly masks or
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even destroys cleavage sites, further decreasing digestibility.
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Keywords: Glutenin; Methylglyoxal; Digestibility; α-dicarbonyl compounds;
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Hot-processing
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INTRODUCTION
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Wheat is the most widely planted and commonly consumed food crop globally.
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Glutenin is one of the primary components of wheat protein and also one of the main
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components of flour products, wherein it provides high nutrition for human
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consumption. Glutenin accounts for 47% of the total protein in wheat and is a protein
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aggregate of high molecular weight (HMW) and low molecular weight (LMW)
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subunits, with molar mass of approximately 200,000 to several million, which is
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stabilized by intermolecular disulfide bonds, hydrophobic interactions, and other
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forces1. Consequently, glutenin is a very important source of protein nutrition for
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humans. Some studies have investigated the physical and chemical changes of
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glutenin during processing, but the underlying mechanisms of such changes have not
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been fully clarified due to difficulties in the separation process, the complex structure
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of glutenin, and complex chemical reactions that occur during processing.1
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Heat processing is widely used to process foods. However, heat processing results
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in complex reactions within food matrices including the Maillard reaction and protein
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oxidation that lead to changes in protein structures within foods. The Maillard
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reaction is induced by reducing sugars and the alteration of protein structures due to
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sugar degradation products that alter the utilization of dietary proteins. α-dicarbonylic
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compounds (α-DCs) like methylglyoxal (MGO) and glyoxal (GO) are important
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intermediates of Maillard reactions that occur during heat processing.
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α-DCs can modify the side chain amino groups of lysine (Lys) and arginine (Arg)
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residues due to their high reactivity. Indeed, α-DC reactivity is much higher than that 3
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of glucose, resulting in the reaction of α-DC with side chain amino groups and
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subsequent potential risks to human health. Investigation of H3 histone modification
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by 3-Deoxyglucosone indicated that the reaction mainly happened on the ε-amino
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group of Lys and Arg residues, resulting in secondary structural transformations2.
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Among all of α-DCs, MGOs have the highest reactivity. MGO exists widely in
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hot processed foods. The concentration of MGO in honey is in the range of 0.8-33
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mg/kg3. The MGO content in espresso coffee is 230.9 μM, and the baking process
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affected the content of MGO in coffee beans due to the Maillard reaction4. MGO in
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fats and oils is formed by lipid degradation during processing. The amount of MGO
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formed in fish oil heated at 60 °C for 7 days was 2.03 to 2.89 mg/kg5. MGO also
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exists in fermented products, such as alcoholic drinks and vinegar, for example, the
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MGO content in wine and vinegar is 10 and 35 ppm, respectively6.
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MGO has also been found to modify protein. Modification of glutathione
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peroxidase (GSH-Px) by MGO demonstrated that the binding sites of MGO to
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glutathione peroxidase were Arg184 and Arg185 and that glutathione peroxidase
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activity declined after modification7.
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Protein modifications that are produced under physiological conditions are widely
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investigated as markers of oxidative stress that are associated with diseases such as
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diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease, and atherosclerosis8. However, few studies have
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evaluated the risk of consuming proteins with these modifications. Because proteins
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provide nutrients through digestion, digestibility is an important indicator when
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assessing protein nutrition that is affected by processing conditions. As indicated 4
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above, processing can result in very complex reactions among food matrices that can
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lead to significant changes in protein digestibility. Decreases in digestibility caused by
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structural changes of proteins from food processing have recently attracted increasing
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attention.9 In particular, changes in protein structure caused by Maillard reactions can
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reduce the nutritional value of proteins and the formation of undesirable byproducts.10
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For example, carbonylation of milk proteins results in the loss of essential amino
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acids while also reducing protein digestibility. Maillard reactions also affect the
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physicochemical properties of proteins by altering protein structures and triggering
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aggregation. The oxidative degradation of basic amino acids (e.g., lysine, arginine,
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and proline) due to protein carbonylation leads directly to changes in the
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physicochemical properties of dairy and meat proteins while decreasing the nutritional
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value of the corresponding products.11 A shotgun assay was previously used to
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characterize the number of sites and their locations in the lactosylation of cow’s milk
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proteins, which indicated that their numbers increased with increasing processing.
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These changes led to progressive modulation of physicochemical properties and
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decreases in digestibility.12 However, studies have not investigated the effects of
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reducing sugars and their degradation products during heat processing on the
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digestibility of glutenin.
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The goal of this study was to therefore investigate the influence of MGO on
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glutenin digestibility and evaluate the mechanisms of alteration at different heating
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temperatures within a simulated system. Digestibility was measured using the
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o-phthalaldehyde (OPA) method, while changes in the secondary structure, disulfide 5
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bonds (SS), endogenous fluorescence, and thermal stability of MGO-glutenin were
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evaluated to determine the mechanisms underlying decreases in its digestibility. The
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physicochemical properties of glutenin were also concomitantly measured to further
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deconvolute the mechanism underlying changes in glutenin digestibility. Moreover,
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the effects of thermal processing conditions on the nutritional value of wheat products
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were also evaluated based on the digestibility of glutenin.
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MATERIALS AND METHODS
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Materials
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Wheat was purchased from a local commercial market. All water used in the
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experiments was produced from a Milli-Q Ultrapure Water Systems, and all
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chemicals used were analytical grade, unless otherwise specified. Pepsin from porcine
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gastric mucosa (>2500 U/mg), trypsin from porcine pancreas (1655 U/mg), and
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chymotrypsin (>40 U/mg) were purchased from the Sigma-Aldrich Chemical
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Corporation.
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Separation of glutenin
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Glutenin was extracted from wheat flour, as previously described.13 Briefly,
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n-hexane was added to freeze-dried gluten at a 1:20 (n-hexane:gluten; w/v) ratio and
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then stirred for 1 h at room temperature to remove fat, followed by placing the gluten
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suspension in a fuming cupboard overnight to remove the n-hexane. A 0.4 mol/L
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NaCl solution was added to the gluten at a 1:20 (NaCl:gluten; w/v) ratio, followed by
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stirring again for 1 h at room temperature. The suspension was then centrifuged to 6
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collect the precipitate (A) and remove albumin and globulin. Ultrapure water was
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added to the precipitate (A) at a 1:20 (w/v) ratio and then stirred for 1 h at room
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temperature to remove NaCl, followed by centrifugation to collect precipitate (B).
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The precipitate (B) was again dissolved in 70% alcohol at a 1:40 (w/v) ratio and
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centrifuged at 10,000 g for 20 min to remove the prolamin. Each extraction step was
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repeated three times. The content of reducing sugar and MGO in glutenin powder was
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determined
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chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS), the content of which was
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220.05±34.24 ug/g and 67.12±1.06 ng/mg, respectively.
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by
3,5-dinitrosalicylic
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reagent
colorimetry
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The final precipitate (C) was then lyophilized at -80°C and ground to a powder to
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obtain native glutenin.
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Glutenin suspension preparation
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A given mass of glutenin powder was placed in a mortar and fully ground. After
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grinding to ultrafine powders, 100 mg of glutenin powder was added to 100 ml of
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ultrapure water which was then homogenized at 10,000 rpm for 30 s using high-speed
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blender (Ika T18 Basic, Staufen, Germany) for several times until the glutenin powder
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was suspended stably in the ultrapure water.
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Carbonyl reactions between MGO and glutenin
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The glutenin suspension was homogenized using a high-speed blender to achieve
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uniform dispersion in water. MGO was added to the suspension to provide a mass
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ratio of glutenin to MGO of 1:8. The suspension was then heated to 100°C, 120°C,
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Stuart, England) to simulate hot processing. The glutenin suspension without MGO
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was heated to 100 °C, 120 °C, 140 °C, 160 °C, and 180 °C for 15 min each as the
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controls. Samples were then freeze-dried after ultrafiltration.
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Determination of digestibility
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Simulated gastric and intestinal fluids were produced based on US
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Pharmacopoeia formulae. Five milligrams of glutenin was dissolved in 5 mL of
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simulated gastric fluid which contains 2.5 mM CaCl2, 35 mM NaCl and pepsin (182
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U/mg proteins) and then digested at 37°C for 1 h in a constant temperature incubator.
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An in vitro intestinal digestion was then conducted with the gastric digestion
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products. A 1 mL solution of simulated intestinal fluid which contains 7.6 mM CaCl2
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and 20.3 mM Tris, 7.4 mM bile salts, trypsin (40 U/mg proteins) and chymotrypsin
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(0.5 U/mg proteins) was added to the gastric digestion products and then placed in a
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constant temperature incubator for 2 h of further digestion. The reaction was stopped
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by heating in boiling water for 5 min. The hydrolysate aliquots were then diluted at a
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1:20 (v/v) ratio with an OPA reagent. Subsamples of the dilution (200 μL) were added
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to a 96-well plate and incubated for 10 min, followed by measurement of fluorescence
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emission at an excitation wavelength of 340 nm and an emission wavelength of 450
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nm using a plate reader (Varioskan LUX, Thermo Scientific, Waltham, MA, USA).
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Different concentrations of tryptophan (0.01, 0.05, 0.1, 0.2, 0.5, and 0.6 mmol/mL)
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were used to establish a standard curve. Digestibility was then calculated as the ratio
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of free to total amino acid content after digestion of the protein. All measurements
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Where hs is the concentration (mmol) of free amine groups per gram of protein in the
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sample, and htotal is the concentration (mmol) of free amino groups per gram of
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protein, assuming complete hydrolysis of the protein (8.83 mmol/g protein). All
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measurements were made in triplicate.
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Surface hydrophobicity
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Hydrophobicity (H0) was measured as previously described
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Briefly, sample
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solutions at different concentrations (0.05, 0.1, 0.2, 0.5, 0.8, and 1.0 mg/mL) were
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prepared in sodium phosphate buffer solution (0.01 M, pH 7.0). Then, 20 μL of 8 mM
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8-Anilino-1-naphthalenesulfonic acid (ANS) solution was added to a 4 mL sample,
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and the fluorescence intensity (FI) was immediately measured using a LUMINA
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fluorescence spectrometer (Thermo Scientific, Waltham, MA, USA) at an excitation
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wavelength of 390 nm and an emission wavelength of 470 nm. The initial slope from
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a plot of FI versus protein concentration was used as the H0 index.
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Foaming ability and stability
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Foaming ability and stability were evaluated as previously described
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suspensions of glutenin samples in buffer were placed in glass measuring cylinders
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and vigorously mixed using a homogenizer operated at 20,000 rpm for 2 min at room
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measuring cylinder. The foam stability time was recorded as the time taken for the
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foam to completely disappear.
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Determination of solubility
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0.5 g of protein was accurately weighed and dispersed in 5 mL of ultrapure water.
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The protein dispersion was stirred with a magnetic stirrer for 1 h at room temperature
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and centrifuged at 5000 g for 20 min. The protein level in the supernatant was
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measured by Coomassie brilliant blue method. Solubility (%) is determined17
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according to the following formula:
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Solubility (%) =
𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑖𝑛 𝑙𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑙 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑖𝑛 𝑙𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑙 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛
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Evaluation of emulsifying properties
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Samples were dispersed well in a phosphate buffer solution to achieve a final
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concentration of 1 mg/mL. Five milliliters of peanut oil was then added to the samples
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and homogenized at 24,000 rpm for 1 min using an Ultra-Turrax homogenizer (Ika
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T18 Basic, Staufen, Germany) to generate an emulsion. Then, 50 μL of the emulsion
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was diluted (1:100, v/v) into 0.1% (w/v) SDS solution using micropipettes. The
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absorbance of the emulsion was measured at 500 nm using a plate reader (Varioskan
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LUX, Thermo Scientific, Waltham, MA, USA), with duplicate measurement after
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letting the emulsion stand for 10 min. EAI and ESI values were calculated18 using the
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following formula:
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EAI (m2 / mg )
2 2.303 A0 DF c φ (1 θ) 10000
ESI (min )
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Where DF is the dilution factor (100), C is the protein concentration (g/mL), ψ is the
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optical path (1 cm), θ is the oil volume fraction (0.25), and A0 and A10 are the
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absorbance values of the emulsion at 0 and 10 min, respectively.
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Fourier-transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy
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Samples were fully dried with P2O5 for preservation. A total of 2.00 mg of dried
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samples and 150.00 mg of KBr powder were pre-dried to a constant weight using
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rapid grinding with an agate pestle, followed by pressing into a pellet. A scanning
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band of 4000400 cm-1 was then used for FT-IR spectroscopy using 32 scanning
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frames. The corresponding resolution of the spectra was 4 cm-1.19
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Sulfhydryl (SH) and disulfide bond (SS) contents
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The total and free sulfhydryl (SH) contents of glutenin were determined, as 20,
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previously described
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mg of protein was suspended into 10 mL of Tris-glycine buffer containing 8 M urea
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for a total of 1 h. The protein concentration was then diluted to 0.1 mg/mL using
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Tris-glycine buffer. A 1 mL aliquot of the dilution was then reacted for 25 min with
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10 μL of Ellman’s reagent within 10 mM Tris-glycine buffer, followed by absorbance
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measurement at 412 nm. The SS content was then measured by dissolving 5 mg of
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glutenin in 10 mL of Tris-glycine buffer (pH 8.0) containing 8 M urea. A 1 mL
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aliquot of the sample solution was then diluted with 4 mL of Tris-glycine buffer (pH
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containing 8 M urea and maintained at room temperature for 1 h. Glutenin solutions
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were then diluted with the Tris-glycine buffer to achieve a final concentration of 0.1
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Ellman’s reagent for 10 min at room temperature, followed by absorbance
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measurement at 412 nm.
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The SH contents (µmol SH/g) were then calculated using the following equation: SH ( mol / g )
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Where A412 is the absorbance at 412 nm, C is the glutenin concentration (mg/mL), and
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D is the dilution factor (i.e., 1 in our experiment). The SS contents (µmol SS/g) were
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calculated using the following equation:
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SS ( mol / g )
SHtotal SHfree , 2
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Where A412 is the absorbance at 412 nm, C is the glutenin concentration (mg/mL), and
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D is the dilution factor (i.e., 1 in our experiment).
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wavelength of 295 nm and emission wavelengths from 320 to 550 nm using a
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fluorescence spectrophotometer (LUMINA Fluorescence Spectrometer, Thermo
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Scientific, Waltham, MA, USA). The scanning speed was set to 60 nm/min, and the
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slit-width was set as 5 nm. Native glutenin was used as the control, and a buffer
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solution alone was used to measure background fluorescence. Samples were measured
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in triplicate.
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Heat stability of glutenin
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Thermal gravimetric (TG) analysis was performed using a Thermogravimetric
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Analyzer (TGA, Netzsch STA409PC, Germany). For TG analyses, the heating rate
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was set at 10°C/min, and the temperature was varied over 50600°C, with nitrogen as
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the heating gas. The first derivative of the TGA curve was plotted to determine the
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degradation temperatures (Td) using the STAR software program (version 9.01).22
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Statistical analyses
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Statistical analysis of differences in measurements among the SH and S-S group
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abundances, surface hydrophobicity, secondary structure variation, and in vitro
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digestibility was conducted by one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) using the
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SPSS 19.0 software (IBM Corporation, New York, USA). Statistically significant
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differences were set at P < 0.05.
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Variation in digestibility of glutenin products
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Fig. 1. Changes in gastric (a) and intestinal (b) digestibility of the control and heated
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MGO-glutenin samples with increasing temperature. Data show the means ± SD of triplicate
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independent experiments. Bars represent the standard error of the mean.
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The gastric (Fig. 1a) and intestinal (Fig. 1b) digestibility were measured for the
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resulting glutenin products. The gastric digestibility of the control and heated
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MGO-glutenin products decreased with increased heating, but the gastric digestibility
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of heated MGO-glutenin was lower than that of the control. A similar trend was
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observed for intestinal digestibility via treatment with trypsin and α-chymotrypsin.
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Differences in physicochemical properties of glutenin
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The surface hydrophobicity index, H0, was measured for all samples (Table 1). H0
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of native glutenin was 32.49 ± 0.40, while H0 of the control first increased with
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The foaming ability (Fig. 2a) and stability (Fig. 2b) at different temperatures
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were also measured. The foaming ability of MGO-glutenin first increased with
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temperature but then subsequently decreased, while that of the control group did not
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vary. The foaming stability of the control and heated MGO-glutenin samples
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decreased with increasing temperature exposure, while the foaming stability of the
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control was higher than that of heated MGO-glutenin under the same conditions.
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Table 1. The surface hydrophobic indices and degradation temperatures of native glutenin, control
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proteins, and heated MGO-glutenin at increasing temperatures.
Reaction condition
H0; X ± SD
Glutenin
Td (°C)
MGO-glutenin
Glutenin
32.50 ± 0.41d
Glutenin
MGO-glutenin 271.70 ± 1.18a
100°C
33.99 ± 0.05d
28.85 ± 1.27b
271.11 ± 0.63a
104.66 ± 1.14b
120°C
36.87 ± 0.98c
26.12 ± 1.07c
272.05 ± 0.76a
98.11 ± 0.20c
140°C
41.90 ± 1.10b
14.24 ± 0.14d
271.04 ± 0.66a
89.35 ± 1.22d
160°C
42.46 ± 1.20b
6.78 ± 0.22e
271.65 ± 1.00a
82.40 ± 2.59e
180°C
34.65 ± 0.01a
n.d.
272.48 ± 0.73a
76.99 ± 3.80e
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Values are given as mean ± standard deviation (SD). Different superscript letters within the same column indicate
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statistically significant differences (P