| Abstract: | Data on the physico-chemical properties of proteins from soybean, groundnut, sesame seed, sunflower seed, safflower seed,
mustard seed, rapeseed and cotton seed are fairly extensive. An examination of the available data on high molecular weight
proteins suggests that there are similarities in many of their properties. In this report the similarity in amino acid composition,
size and shape, molecular weight, secondary structure, subunit composition, association-dissociation at high and low pH, stability
towards denaturants, hydrolysis by enzymes and quaternary structure of the high molecular weight proteins is discussed. Based
on these similarities a model has been proposed for the associationdissociation, denaturation and reassociation behaviour
of the high molecular weight proteins of oilseeds. |
