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Xingfeng Guo1, Xiaohong Sun1, Yingying Zhang1
1School of Food Science and Technology, Henan University of Technology, Zhengzhou 450001, China.
Abstract:
Soy protein hydrolyzate has been used as supplements in wheat flour to enhance the nutritional value of its products, but it may negatively affect the gluten properties simultaneously. In order to explore the mechanism of this effect, protein characteristics including disulfide bond, protein composition, intermolecular force of dough proteins, and atomic force microscope images of gluten were obtained. Results showed that disulfide bonds in dough increased when soy protein hydrolyzate was added, but glutenin macropolymer decreased. Atomic force microscope images showed that gluten were weakened by soy protein hydrolyzate. Based on these results, a model was developed to describe the interaction between soy protein hydrolyzates and wheat proteins: soy protein hydrolyzates linked with wheat proteins through disulfide bond, disrupted the glutenins polymerization, thus hindered gluten networks formation. The interaction between wheat proteins and soy protein hydrolyzates in noodle making dough could be described with this model reasonably.
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