FTIR microspectroscopy study of composition fluctuations in extruded amylopectin-gelatin blends.

Abstract:

:The spatial variation in the composition of nonexpanded biopolymer blends prepared by extrusion of mixtures of gelatin with either native or pregelatinized waxy maize starch was studied using a 30-microm aperture FTIR microspectroscopy technique. The ratio of the areas of the "saccharide" bands (953-1180 cm(-1)) and the amide I and II bands (1483-1750 cm(-1)) was used to monitor the relative distributions of the two components of the blend. Two calibration methods were used to obtain amylopectin concentration values from the ratios of the IR bands. The results suggested a high degree of heterogeneity in these blends, despite the thorough mixing expected by twin-screw extrusion processing. The concentration fluctuations were greater for the blends produced by extruding gelatin and native waxy maize starch mixtures. This was in agreement with the reduced degree of conversion of the starch granules when extruded in the presence of gelatin. The FTIR 2-dimensional maps obtained suggested that in the blends produced from either native or pregelatinized starch at all concentrations studied (25/75, 50/50, and 75/25 amylopectin/gelatin) the gelatin constituted the continuous phase. The effect of the spatial resolution on the FTIR microspectroscopy results was considered and the proposed interpretation was verified by the use of polarized light microscopy and FTIR microspectroscopy acquired at higher spatial resolution (10 microm).

journal_name

Biopolymers

journal_title

Biopolymers

authors

Mousia Z,Farhat IA,Pearson M,Chesters MA,Mitchell JR

doi

10.1002/bip.1015

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2001-01-01 00:00:00

pages

208-18

issue

4

eissn

0006-3525

issn

1097-0282

journal_volume

62

pub_type

杂志文章
  • Thermodynamic and kinetic characterization of the dissociation and assembly of quadruplex nucleic acids.

    abstract::The dissociation and assembly of quadruplex DNA structures (and a few quadruplex RNAs) have been characterized at several levels of rigor, ranging from gross descriptions of factors that govern each process, to semiquantitative comparisons of the relative abilities of these factors to induce stabilization or destabili...

    journal_title:Biopolymers

    pub_type: 杂志文章,评审

    doi:10.1002/1097-0282(2000/2001)56:3<147::AID-BIP10011

    authors: Hardin CC,Perry AG,White K

    更新日期:2000-01-01 00:00:00

  • Synchrotron radiation small angle scattering studies of thermal stability of xylanase XYNII from Trichoderma longibrachiatum.

    abstract::Xylanase XYNII from Trichoderma longibrachiatum is a small protein of the molecular weight 21 kDa, belonging to the family 11 of glycosyl hydrolases, which catalyses hydrolysis of xylan. This article reports thermal stability study of xylanase XYN II conformation in the temperature range 15-65 degrees C by the small a...

    journal_title:Biopolymers

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1002/bip.20605

    authors: Kozak M

    更新日期:2006-12-15 00:00:00

  • Three-dimensional structure and mimetic-membrane association of consensus 11-amino-acid motif from soybean LEA3 protein.

    abstract::The occurrence of a highly conserved 11-mer repeating motif in the primary sequence is a major characteristic of group 3 late embryogenesis abundant (LEA3) proteins, which are strongly associated with abiotic stress tolerance of the plants. In this study, the three-dimensional structure, mimetic membrane association, ...

    journal_title:Biopolymers

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1002/bip.21693

    authors: Xue R,Liu Y,Zheng Y,Wu Y,Li X,Pei F,Ni J

    更新日期:2012-01-01 00:00:00

  • Fibrillar peptide gels in biotechnology and biomedicine.

    abstract::Peptides, peptidomimetics, and peptide derivatives that self-assemble into fibrillar gels have received increasing interest as synthetic extracellular matrices for applications in 3D cell culture and regenerative medicine. Recently, several of these fibrillizing molecules have been functionalized with bioactive compon...

    journal_title:Biopolymers

    pub_type: 杂志文章,评审

    doi:10.1002/bip.21326

    authors: Jung JP,Gasiorowski JZ,Collier JH

    更新日期:2010-01-01 00:00:00

  • Solution conformation of a cyclic neurokinin antagonist: a NMR and molecular dynamics study.

    abstract::The solution structure of a hexapeptide, cyclo (Gln-Trp-Phe-Gly-Leu-Met), which is a selective NK-2 antagonist, has been studied by a combination of two-dimensional nmr and molecular dynamics (MD) techniques. The simulation based on nmr and MD data resulted in the convergence to a family of structures. Free molecular ...

    journal_title:Biopolymers

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1002/bip.360340906

    authors: Zhang M,Quinn TP,Wong TC

    更新日期:1994-09-01 00:00:00

  • Influence of structure of human, rat, and bovine serum albumins on binding properties of photoactive drug hypericin.

    abstract::Fluorescence binding measurements and molecular modeling were employed to study the interaction of hypericin (Hyp) with human (HSA), rat (RSA), and bovine (BSA) serum albumins. Fluorescence emission data show the solubility of Hyp increasing in the order BSA, HSA, and RSA. Molecular modeling was used to construct the ...

    journal_title:Biopolymers

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1002/bip.10110

    authors: Hritz J,Kascakova S,Ulicny J,Miskovsky P

    更新日期:2002-01-01 00:00:00

  • Ultrabright fluorescein-labeled antibodies near silver metallic surfaces.

    abstract::Fluorescein-labeled antibodies are widely used in clinical assays and fluorescence microscopy. The fluorescent signal per labeled antibody is limited by fluorescein self-quenching, which occurs when the antibody is heavily labeled with multiple fluoresceins. We examined immunoglobulin G (IgG) when labeled with 0.7 to ...

    journal_title:Biopolymers

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1002/bip.20098

    authors: Lakowicz JR,Malicka J,Huang J,Gryczynski Z,Gryczynski I

    更新日期:2004-08-15 00:00:00

  • Conformation of thymosin beta 9 in water/fluoroalcohol solution determined by NMR spectroscopy.

    abstract::The conformation of thymosin beta 9 in solution of 40% (v/v) 1,1,1,3,3,3-hexafluoro-2-propanol-d2 in water has been investigated by two-dimensional 1H-nmr spectroscopy. Under this condition thymosin beta 9 adopts an ordered structure. The determination of the conformation of the peptide was based on a set of 304 appro...

    journal_title:Biopolymers

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1002/(SICI)1097-0282(199705)41:6<623::AID-BIP3>

    authors: Stoll R,Voelter W,Holak TA

    更新日期:1997-05-01 00:00:00

  • Design and characterization of a model alpha beta peptide.

    abstract::CD and nmr spectroscopy were used to compare the conformational properties of two related peptides. One of the peptides, Model AB, was designed to adopt a helix-turn-extended strand (alpha beta) tertiary structure in water that might be stabilized by hydrophobic interactions between two leucine residues in the amino-t...

    journal_title:Biopolymers

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1002/bip.360360202

    authors: Butcher DJ,Bruch MD,Moe GR

    更新日期:1995-08-01 00:00:00

  • Quantitative IR spectrophotometry of peptide compounds in water (H2O) solutions. I. Spectral parameters of amino acid residue absorption bands.

    abstract::Infrared spectra of the amino acid residues in H2O solution have been obtained in the 1800-1400-cm-1 region. It has been established that amino acid residues of arginine, asparagine, glutamine, aspartic and glutamic acids, lysine, tyrosine, histidine, and phenylalanine have intensive absorption in this spectral region...

    journal_title:Biopolymers

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1002/bip.360301309

    authors: Venyaminov SYu,Kalnin NN

    更新日期:1990-01-01 00:00:00

  • Conformations of DNA strands containing GAGT, GACA, or GAGC tetranucleotide repeats.

    abstract::The (GA)(n) microsatellite has been known from previous studies to adopt unusual, ordered, cooperatively melting secondary structures in neutral aqueous solutions containing physiological concentrations of salts, at acid pH values or in aqueous ethanol solutions. To find more about the primary structure specificity of...

    journal_title:Biopolymers

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1002/bip.20822

    authors: Kypr J,Kejnovská I,Vorlícková M

    更新日期:2007-11-01 00:00:00

  • Particle tracking microrheology of purified gastrointestinal mucins.

    abstract::The rheological characteristics of gastric and duodenal mucin solutions, the building blocks of the mucus layer that covers the epithelia of the two organs, were investigated using particle tracking microrheology. We used biochemically well characterized purified porcine mucins (MUC5AC and MUC2) as models for human mu...

    journal_title:Biopolymers

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1002/bip.22372

    authors: Georgiades P,Pudney PD,Thornton DJ,Waigh TA

    更新日期:2014-04-01 00:00:00

  • Normal mode calculation of a netropsin-DNA complex: effect of structural deformation on vibrational spectrum.

    abstract::Calculations of the normal mode spectrum of a netropsin-DNA complex, an isolated DNA helix of the same sequence, and a free netropsin molecule were carried out and compared with observations. We find that the frequency of modes of the complex that are primarily vibrations localized to the helix are relatively unchange...

    journal_title:Biopolymers

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1002/bip.360350611

    authors: Chen YZ,Prohofsky EW

    更新日期:1995-06-01 00:00:00

  • Computer simulation studies of the fidelity of DNA polymerases.

    abstract::Computer simulations can provide in principle quantitative correlation between the structures of DNA polymerases and the replication fidelity. This paper describes our progress in this direction. Using several theoretical approaches, including the free energy perturbation (FEP), linear response approximation (LRA), an...

    journal_title:Biopolymers

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1002/bip.10244

    authors: Florián J,Goodman MF,Warshel A

    更新日期:2003-03-01 00:00:00

  • Proton nmr relaxation study of the dynamics of anthopleurin-A in solution.

    abstract::Spin-spin and spin-lattice 1H-nmr relaxation times of the sea anemone polypeptide anthopleurin-A were measured at frequencies of 200, 300, 400, and 500 MHz. Relaxation times were fitted iteratively by least squares regression to the isotropic tumbling model, Woessner's model for anisotropic motion, and Lipari and Szab...

    journal_title:Biopolymers

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1002/bip.360280303

    authors: Torda AE,Norton RS

    更新日期:1989-03-01 00:00:00

  • A molecular simulation picture of DNA hydration around A- and B-DNA.

    abstract::Recent results from molecular dynamics (MD) simulations on hydration of DNA with respect to conformation are reviewed and compared with experimental data. MD simulations of explicit solvent around DNA can now give a detailed model of DNA that not only matches well with the experimental data but provides additional ins...

    journal_title:Biopolymers

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1002/(SICI)1097-0282(1998)48:4<199::AID-BIP2>3.

    authors: Feig M,Pettitt BM

    更新日期:1998-01-01 00:00:00

  • Gel electrophoresis of micron-sized particles: a problem and a solution.

    abstract::The gel electrophoresis of spherical particles with a radius above 0.2 micron has not been reported yet. In the present study, video phase-contrast light microscopy is used to observe the motion of individual latex spheres, 0.52 micron in radius, during electrophoresis in 0.1% agarose gels. At 2 V/cm, the spheres init...

    journal_title:Biopolymers

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1002/bip.360291416

    authors: Griess GA,Serwer P

    更新日期:1990-12-01 00:00:00

  • Thermal stability of DNA with interstrand crosslinks.

    abstract::Although many anticancer drugs exert their biological activity by forming DNA interstrand crosslinks (ICLs), the thermodynamics of biologically relevant long crosslinked DNAs has not been intensively studied in contrast to short duplexes. Here, we carry out computer modeling of the shift of melting temperature of long...

    journal_title:Biopolymers

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1002/bip.22077

    authors: Chang CL,Lando DY,Fridman AS,Hu CK

    更新日期:2012-10-01 00:00:00

  • Correlation between membrane translocation and analgesic efficacy in kyotorphin derivatives.

    abstract::Amidated kyotorphin (L-Tyr-L-Arg-NH2; KTP-NH2) causes analgesia when systemically administered. The lipophilic ibuprofen-conjugated derivative of KTP-NH2 has improved analgesic efficacy. However, fast degradation by peptidases impacts negatively in the pharmacodynamics of these drugs. In this work, selected derivative...

    journal_title:Biopolymers

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1002/bip.22580

    authors: Serrano ID,Ramu VG,Pinto AR,Freire JM,Tavares I,Heras M,Bardaji ER,Castanho MA

    更新日期:2015-01-01 00:00:00

  • Does the anesthetic 2,2,2-trifluoroethanol interact with bovine serum albumin by direct binding or by solvent-mediated effects? A calorimetric and spectroscopic investigation.

    abstract::Thermal unfolding of bovine serum albumin (BSA) has been studied in the presence of 2,2,2-trifluoroethanol (TFE) using high-sensitivity microdifferential scanning calorimetry. Quantitative thermodynamic parameters accompanying the thermal transitions have been evaluated. TFE is observed to be a stabilizer or a destabi...

    journal_title:Biopolymers

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1002/bip.20262

    authors: Banerjee T,Kishore N

    更新日期:2005-06-05 00:00:00

  • Movements at the hemoglobin A-hemes and their role in ligand binding, analyzed by X-ray crystallography.

    abstract::The two hemoglobin structures determined by Max Perutz, the liganded R-state, which has high oxygen affinity, and the unliganded T-state with low oxygen affinity, were landmarks in molecular and structural biology (Perutz and Lehman, Nature 1968, 219, 902-909; Bolton and Perutz, Nature 1970, 28, 551-552; Perutz et al....

    journal_title:Biopolymers

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1002/bip.21197

    authors: Dodson E,Dodson G

    更新日期:2009-12-01 00:00:00

  • NMR studies of RNA dynamics and structural plasticity using NMR residual dipolar couplings.

    abstract::An increasing number of RNAs are being discovered that perform their functions by undergoing large changes in conformation in response to a variety of cellular signals, including recognition of proteins and small molecular targets, changes in temperature, and RNA synthesis itself. The measurement of NMR residual dipol...

    journal_title:Biopolymers

    pub_type: 杂志文章,评审

    doi:10.1002/bip.20765

    authors: Getz M,Sun X,Casiano-Negroni A,Zhang Q,Al-Hashimi HM

    更新日期:2007-08-05 00:00:00

  • Specificity of trypsin digestion and conformational flexibility at different sites of unfolded lysozyme.

    abstract::Fourteen tryptic peptides and nine intermediates were identified as products of trypsin digestion of reduced and S-3-(trimethylated amino) propylated lysozyme. Kinetics of the appearance and disappearance of these products were observed by monitoring the peak areas on the chromatogram. In spite of the complicated reac...

    journal_title:Biopolymers

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1002/bip.360340208

    authors: Noda Y,Fujiwara K,Yamamoto K,Fukuno T,Segawa S

    更新日期:1994-02-01 00:00:00

  • New results concerning the behavior of cellulose acetate in solutions and films by means of CD measurements.

    abstract::Cellulose acetate (DS = 2.45) was extensively investigated by Circular Dichroism (CD) in acetonitrile and dioxane. We found great differences between the CD spectra of a 1 wt % acetonitrile solution and the corresponding dioxane solution of cellulose acetate (CA) indicating that the macromolecules exist in those solut...

    journal_title:Biopolymers

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1002/(SICI)1097-0282(199908)50:2<163::AID-BIP5>

    authors: Meissner D,Einfeldt J,Schareina T

    更新日期:1999-08-01 00:00:00

  • Vibrations-determined properties of green fluorescent protein.

    abstract::The physicochemical characteristics of the green fluorescent protein (GFP), including the thermodynamic properties (entropy, enthalpy, Gibbs' free energy, heat capacity), normal mode vibrations, and atomic fluctuations, were investigated. The Gaussian 03 computational chemistry program was employed for normal mode ana...

    journal_title:Biopolymers

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1002/bip.20264

    authors: Krasnenko V,Tkaczyk AH,Tkaczyk ER,Farkas O,Mauring K

    更新日期:2005-06-15 00:00:00

  • Synthetic immunogens. Part IV: Conformational studies on gastrin conjugates with the human immunoglobulin G1 hinge peptide 225-232/225'-232'.

    abstract::Hybrids of the double-chain bis-cystinyl fragment 225-232/225'-232' of human immunoglobulin G1 (IgG1) with the human little-gastrin sequence 2-17 were found to induce in animals a strong antigastrin humoral immune response with antibody titers comparable to those raised with conventional gastrin/carrier-protein conjug...

    journal_title:Biopolymers

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1002/bip.360310603

    authors: Moroder L,Bali JP,Kobayashi Y

    更新日期:1991-05-01 00:00:00

  • Tooth enamel protein, amelogenin, has a probable beta-spiral internal channel, Gln112-Leu138, within a single polypeptide chain: preliminary molecular mechanics and dynamics studies.

    abstract::Molecular dynamics simulation, with backbone constraints for 20 ps of equilibration and simulation, of a repeating polypeptide segment, Gln-Pro-His-Gln-Pro-Leu-Gln-Pro-His-Gln-Pro-Leu-Gln-Pro-Met-(Gln-Pro-Leu )4, constituting residues 112-138 of bovine amelolgenin, a 19.35 kD hydrophobic protein, are discussed. It is ...

    journal_title:Biopolymers

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1002/bip.360280130

    authors: Renugopalakrishnan V,Pattabiraman N,Prabhakaran M,Strawich E,Glimcher MJ

    更新日期:1989-01-01 00:00:00

  • Side-chain interactions in the C-peptide helix: Phe 8 ... His 12+.

    abstract::Previous studies have demonstrated that His 12 plays a major role in the pH-dependent stability of the helix formed by the isolated C-peptide (residues 1-13 of ribonuclease A). Here, amino acid replacement experiments show that His 12+ stabilizes the C-peptide helix chiefly by interacting with Phe 8. The Phe 8 ... His...

    journal_title:Biopolymers

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1002/bip.360290104

    authors: Shoemaker KR,Fairman R,Schultz DA,Robertson AD,York EJ,Stewart JM,Baldwin RL

    更新日期:1990-01-01 00:00:00

  • Orientational order of Australian spider silks as determined by solid-state NMR.

    abstract::A simple solid-state NMR method was used to study the structure of (13)C- and (15)N-enriched silk from two Australian orb-web spider species, Nephila edulis and Argiope keyserlingi. Carbon-13 and (15)N spectra from alanine- or glycine-labeled oriented dragline silks were acquired with the fiber axis aligned parallel o...

    journal_title:Biopolymers

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1002/bip.20471

    authors: Bonev B,Grieve S,Herberstein ME,Kishore AI,Watts A,Separovic F

    更新日期:2006-06-05 00:00:00

  • Surveying a local fitness landscape of a protein with epistatic sites for the study of directed evolution.

    abstract::We present a method for analysis of a fitness landscape of a biopolymer with significantly epistatic sites. The analysis is based on a quasi-additive fitness model. The fitness model is constructed with additive terms conducted by "site-fitness" and epistatic terms conducted by "pair-fitness," where the site-fitness i...

    journal_title:Biopolymers

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1002/bip.10126

    authors: Aita T,Hamamatsu N,Nomiya Y,Uchiyama H,Shibanaka Y,Husimi Y

    更新日期:2002-07-05 00:00:00