| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,200,000)
Fiscal Year 1995: ¥300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 1994: ¥1,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,900,000)
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| Research Abstract |
There is no approval theory concerning to existence situation of molecular components < space distribution of amylose and amylopectin > in starch granule. To dissove this problem, we tried to develope the two methods. The first, ball-mill treatment of starch granule. That is, we found that starch granule is easily gelatinized by ball-mill traetment without heat and water. This fact suggests that we can easily control gelatization degree by regulation of ball-mill condition. Hence, it would be possible to be partial dissolution or melting of crystal region of amylopectin if we could find good ball-mill condition, and as the result, the granule would be expanded with retaining its original construction of granule. The expanded granule would be treated with special reagent which specificially react to amylose, and the granule treated with amylase or with the enzyme specificially react to amylopectin. These treatment could fix amylose situation in the granule or reveal amylose. In our stud
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y, it is proved that ball-mill treatment is very favorable to dissolve this problem. And we succeeded in introduction of fatty acid as the model of specific reagent by ultra high pressure treatment. We proved that the fatty acid is specificially induced to amylose by changing starch vareity. This fact suggest amylose being isolated from amylopectin. The second, sequential hydrolysis of amylopectin molecule from outside. This would be performed by immobilized amylase which has some extent of restricted enzyme action region. This reation would also reveal amylose and we could control the reaction by changing the region. In this case, we should gelatinized the granule by ball-mill before enzyme treatment. We succeeded in making immobilized pullulanase on magnetic support, and this makes possible quite easy separation from the enzyme from starch granule in reation mixture. In next stage, we tried to sequential hydrolysis of amylopectin in solution, and we succeeded.
From these results, we succeeded in development of some methods for this study, however, we could not obtain the final dissolution of this problem. Less
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