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. 2019 Dec 16;57(3):1100–1109. doi: 10.1007/s13197-019-04145-2

Table 2.

Percentages of the different secondary structures of SK1 and SK2 based on Gaussian curve fitting

Structural properties Present studya Gao et al. (2005)a Espinosa-Ramírez et al. (2017)a Xiao et al. (2014)b Georget et al. (2012)a
SK1 SK2 I II
Intermolecular β-sheet (%) 23.92 ± 1.65 21.32 ± 1.81 36 42 24 40
α-helix (%) 22.10 ± 3.28 25.49 ± 2.93
Random coil (%) 17.25 ± 8.84 26.45 ± 4.67
Random coil and α-helix (%) 39.35 ± 5.55 51.94 ± 7.60 35 33 49 39
β-turns (%) 31.21 ± 1.66 22.26 ± 5.37 28 25 27 22
α-helix/intermolecular β-sheet ratio 1.00 ± 0.04 1.25 ± 0.23 0.96 0.96–1.07 0.87
amide I/amide II ratio 1.16 ± 0.08 1.21 ± 0.01

I: kafirin extract from decorticated sorghum flour (dry milling) and II: kafirin extract from decorticated sorghum gluten meal (wet milling)

aEthanol extraction

bUltrasound-assisted tert-butanol extraction