Japan Society for the Promotion of Science:Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
Date (from‐to) : 2014/04 -2018/03
Author : OOKURA Tetsuya; KASAI Midori; TSUYUKUBO Mika
Glucose and reducing sugars play important roles for sweet taste of cooked rice. We focused on the α-glucosidase, which produces glucose from non-reducing ends of starch, and its interacting proteins. Having produced antibodies against the interacting proteins, we investigated their distribution in rice grains and their elution behavior during rice cooking with immunoblot analysis and immuno-fluorescent staining.
In brown rice, immunostain analysis revealed that the interacting proteins and α-glucosidase were mainly localized along cell walls of amyloplasts. During rice cooking, the interacting proteins were detected in rice grains and in cooking water. Not having gotten reproducible protein recovery from cooked rice grains, we were unable to obtain amounts of the interacting proteins in cooked rice grains. Further study is required for elucidating how the interacting proteins and α-glucosidase affect glucose production during rice cooking.