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Article Dans Une Revue Biomacromolecules Année : 2004

Swelling behavior and structural characteristics of wheat gluten polypeptide films

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Wheat gluten films were subjected to controlled thermomechanical treatments to increase the percentage of aggregated sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS)-insoluble gluten protein, the aggregation reaction being disulfide bonding. The rheological properties of the films were measured under immersion in water, where wheat gluten films are stable and show only slight swelling. The equilibrium swelling of the gluten films in water decreased with the increase of the percentage of SDS-insoluble protein aggregates, and the frequency the independent shear modulus increased sharply with increasing percentage of SDS-insoluble aggregates. Both findings confirm that disulfide bonding between gluten proteins is the predominant cross-linking reaction in the system. A relationship between shear modulus and aggregated protein compatible with a power law (of exponent 3) suggests the existence of a protein network at a molecular scale. However, the classical Flory-Rehner model failed to describe the relationship between the plateau modulus and the gluten volume fraction (a very drastic increase, compatible with a power law of an exponent of about 14). This result shows that gluten cannot be described as an entangled polymer network. The interpretation of both relationships is a network of mesoscale particles which in turn have a fractal inner structure (with a fractal dimension close to 3).
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hal-02681940 , version 1 (21-12-2022)

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Sandra Domenek, Lothar Brendel, Marie Helene M. H. Morel, Stephane Guilbert. Swelling behavior and structural characteristics of wheat gluten polypeptide films. Biomacromolecules, 2004, 5 (3), pp.1002-1008. ⟨10.1021/bm034499b⟩. ⟨hal-02681940⟩
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