Abstract
Changes in wheat gluten network structure upon mixing were studied from the biochemical analyses of gluten/glycerol blends mixed at 100 rpm with increasing times (up to 30 min) and temperatures of regulation (40, 60, and 80 degrees C). Whereas mixing induced protein solubility loss, the reduction of disulfide bonds restored protein extractability. But disulfide bond reduction became less efficient in promoting gluten extractability as mixing severity increased. This feature is consistent with the formation of a three-dimensional protein network stabilized by the formation of an increasing number of interchain disulfide bonds. Mixing induced a transient increase in free thiol groups while total thiol-equivalent groups dropped continuously. The changes were attributed to a shear-mediated scission of gluten disulfide bonds followed by oxidation of the thiyl radical moieties. Upon mixing, gluten solubility loss showed an Arrhenius-type temperature dependence with activation energy of 33.7 kJ.mol-1 instead of the more than 100 kJ.mol-1 reported for heat-induced gluten protein solubility loss. To explain this discrepancy, we postulated that during mixing, the disulfide interchange reactions are mediated by thiyl radicals in place of free thiol groups. A general model accounting for shear and temperature effects on gluten network structure is proposed.
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