. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 May 2.

Published in final edited form as: Macromol Biosci. 2014 Feb 18;14(6):817–830. doi: 10.1002/mabi.201300472

Table 1.

Optical rotation angle after simultaneous physical and chemical gelation (PC gels), and physical gelation following cross-linking (C gels) for chitosan (Cs)/gelatin (Gel) networks at varying enzyme concentration (10 to 40 U/ggelatin), given after 80 min of gelation.

System type	mTGase [U/g_gelatin]	${[α]}_{436 n m}^{o b s} [mdegrees]$
System type	mTGase [U/g_gelatin]	Cs1.0%/Gel10%	Cs2.0%/Gel10%
Physico-co-chemical gel (PC)	10	-361 ± 3	-
	20	-347 ± 3	-346 ± 4
	30	-344 ± 3	-
	40	-346 ± 5	-338 ± 5

Chemical gel (C)	10	-420 ± 10	-
	20	-351 ± 3	-360 ± 15
	30	N/A	N/A
	40	N/A	N/A

Physical gel at 12°C	0	-540 ± 15	-510 ± 15

Physical gel at 21°C	0	-390 ± 10	-387 ± 10

Solution at 37°	0	-233 ± 15	-226 ± 15