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Definition of Glutelin

1. Noun. A simple protein found in the seeds of cereals.

Definition of Glutelin

1. Noun. A minor protein (along with gluten and gliadin) in wheat ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Glutelin

1. a plant protein [n -S]

Medical Definition of Glutelin

1. A simple protein found in the seeds of cereal grains such as wheat, barley, and rice. It is an important component of gluten and, together with the protein gliadin, helps make bread porous and spongy after baking. (09 Oct 1997)

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Literary usage of Glutelin

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. American Journal of Physiology by American Physiological Society (1887- ). (1913)
"About one third of the proteins consists of maize glutelin, insoluble in neutral ... Foods containing equal parts of zein and maize glutelin promote nearly ..."

2. The Journal of Medical Research by American Association of Pathologists and Bacteriologists (1901)
"In corn seed, globulin and proteose together represent less than .5 per cent by weight, but the prolamine zein makes up five per cent and glutelin three per ..."

3. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1913)
"The amount of proteins is as follows: Globulin, albumin, proteose 0.45% glutelin i. 15 % Zein 5.0 % 8.6 % The mean nitrogen content of the maize proteins is ..."

4. An Introduction to Biophysics by David Burns (1921)
"Of the 10 per cent, of protein, gliadin forms about 4 per cent, and glutelin about 4 per cent. There is less than 1 per cent, of globulin (0-6 per cent. ..."

5. Commercial Organic Analysis by Alfred Henry Allen, Wm. A. Davis (1913)
"The proteins at present identified are an albumin coagulating at 85° present only in small quantity, a globulin coagulating at 70° and a glutelin named ..."

6. Gene Expression in Field Crops: Bibliography January 1991-November 1992 edited by Janet Saunders, Robert D. Warmbrodt (1995)
"P62 Sequence of three members and expression of a new major subfamily of glutelin genes from rice. Takaiwa, F.; Oono, K.; Wing, D.; Kato, A. Dordrecht ..."

7. Chemistry of Food and Nutrition by Henry Clapp Sherman (1918)
"Glutenin (wheat glutelin) and maize glutelin have each been shown capable, in the rat-feeding experiments cited above, of meeting the requirements not only ..."

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