School of Medical Instrument and Food Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China.
Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Physiology, Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Genomics of the Ministry of Education, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Physiology, College of Agriculture, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China.
Carbohydr Polym. 2021 Feb 15;254:117275. doi: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2020.117275. Epub 2020 Oct 22.
In current study, the effects of starch fine molecular structures on its in vitro digestibility at fully gelatinized stage were investigated. The digestion kinetics of 15 fully gelatinized rice starches were obtained and correlated with starch chain-length distributions and molecular size distributions. Both logarithm of slopes and parallel first-order kinetic model were applied to fit the digestion curves to a few kinetics-based parameters. Result showed there were two simultaneous digestion fractions (fast versus slow) for fully gelatinized rice starches. The rate constants of slowly-digestible fraction significantly correlated with starch molecular sizes, especially with that of amylopectin molecules. Hydrodynamically larger amylopectin molecules tend to contain more shorter branches but less long chains. This slows down the starch hydrolysis by α-amylase while the action of AMG is less antagonistically hindered, increasing overall digestion rate. This study provides important information for rice breeders and manufacturers to develop rice products with reduced starch digestibility.
在本研究中,考察了淀粉精细分子结构对其完全糊化阶段体外消化率的影响。获得了 15 种完全糊化的大米淀粉的消化动力学,并将其与淀粉链长分布和分子大小分布相关联。应用对数斜率和平行一级动力学模型对消化曲线进行拟合,得到了几个基于动力学的参数。结果表明,完全糊化的大米淀粉存在两个同时的消化部分(快速与缓慢)。慢消化部分的速率常数与淀粉分子大小显著相关,尤其是与支链淀粉分子大小相关。在流体力学上较大的支链淀粉分子往往含有更多的短支链,但长链较少。这会减缓α-淀粉酶对淀粉的水解作用,而 AMG 的作用受到的拮抗阻碍较小,从而提高整体消化率。本研究为水稻育种家和制造商提供了重要信息,有助于开发出消化率较低的大米产品。