Both high- and low-molecular-weight glutenin subunits (LMW-GS) play the major role in determining the viscoelastic properties of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) flour. To date there has been no clear correspondence between the amino acid sequences of LMW-GS derived from DNA sequencing and those of actual LMW-GS present in the endosperm. We have characterized a particular LMW-GS from hexaploid brea...

Haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) is characterised by an uncontrolled immune response that causes vascular leakage. Adiponectin (APN) is an adipocytokine involved in prorevascularisation and immunomodulation. To investigate the possible effects of APN in the pathogenesis of HFRS, total and high molecular weight (HMW) APN levels in the plasma of patients with HFRS were quantified usi...

Analyses of the kininogen (KGN) molecule and KGN gene status in five Japanese families with high-molecular-weight (HMW) KGN deficiency were performed by the immunoblotting method with monoclonal antibodies to HMW-KGN, and by the Southern blotting method with the cDNA for human low-molecular-weight prekininogen. No molecular abnormality of KGN was detected in the DNA from four patients with tota...

The popularity of wheat flour tortillas is spreading throughout the world and has become one highest-selling bread products. USDA Southern Regional Performance Nursery (SRPN) serves as largest wheat-growing region in USA, but tortilla quality germplasm SRPN remained unknown. This study investigated kernel traits, dough rheological properties, parameters, glutenin composition 131 lines from 1995...

The Dasypyrum villosum gene bank collection, comprising 32 accessions, was characterized morphologically and genetically for resistance to leaf diseases quality parameters of seeds with specific accent protein polymorphism starch composition. collected material represented nearly the whole distribution area in Mediterranean. For SSR analysis, a set 40 markers wheat selected. A matrix distances ...

Recently we reported that removal of noncovalently bonded protein from glutenin resulted in decreased viscoelasticity. In that study, two glutenin fractions were isolated by successive gel filtration of glutenin on Sephadex G-200 in the solvents acetic acid-guanidine hydrochloride (GuHCl)-cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (AGC) and sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS). This note reports the S20,W values o...