Title
Synthesis of tubular nanostructures from wheat bran albumins during proteolysis with V8 protease in the presence of calcium ions
Date Issued
01 June 2016
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Balandrán-Quintana R.R.
Azamar-Barrios J.A.
Ramos-Clamont Montfort G.
Mendoza-Wilson A.M.
Mercado-Ruiz J.N.
Madera-Santana T.J.
López-Franco Y.L.
Luna-Valdez J.G.
Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo
Publisher(s)
Elsevier Ltd
Abstract
There are very few reports on the self-assembly of peptides derived from proteins of agro industrial byproducts origin. Although it has been claimed that purity is a determining factor in peptide self-assembly, whether proteins extracted using water along with other components also form self-assembled structures is not known. The results of this work prove that albumins from wheat bran, a byproduct obtained from the milling industry, can form tubular nanostructures during their hydrolysis with the V8 protease in the presence of Ca2+. Electron microscopy of the hydrolysate revealed that under specific conditions, long filaments are formed, which are nanotubes of several microns in length, with inner and outer diameters of 100 and 200 nm, respectively. The infrared analysis of the hydrolysate identified -OOC-Ca2+ interactions and changes in beta sheet content in response to variations in protein/V8/Ca2+ molar ratios. A model that explains the probable mechanism of the observed self-assembly is discussed.
Start page
16
End page
23
Volume
200
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Nano-tecnología
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84952924304
PubMed ID
Source
Food Chemistry
ISSN of the container
03088146
Sponsor(s)
We acknowledge Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT), México, for financing the project CB2011-169839 and the scholarship for the doctoral studies of Chaquilla-Quilca. We also acknowledge the participation of the Laboratorio de Química de Materiales CINVESTAV-IPN Unidad Mérida Yucatán, as well as the laboratories LANNBIO, projects FOMIX-YUCATAN 2008-108160 and CONACYT LAB-2009-01 N° 123913. Special thanks to the staff of the different departments of CIAD as well as to Dra. Patricia Quintana for allowing accessibility to LANNBIO and Dora A. Huerta Q. and Ana Ruth Cristobal Ramos, from CINVESTAV, for their technical assistance in the STEM and SEM-EDX analysis.
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