Molecular Structure, Physicochemical Characterization, and in Vitro Degradation of Barley Protein Films
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Barley protein films were prepared by thermopressing using glycerol as a plasticizer. The combined effects of heating temperature and amount of plasticizer interacted to determine protein conformation and, subsequently, the properties of the film matrix. The film barrier and mechanical properties were systematically investigated using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), SDS-PAGE, and protein solubility tests. These experiments demonstrated that heat treatment induced barley protein unfolding and then protein aggregation and the formation of covalent disulfide bonds to enhance film strength. Increasing the amount of plasticizer reduced protein denaturation and limited protein interactions, resulting in significantly improved film flexibility at the cost of reduced film moisture barrier property and tensile strength. In vitro degradation experiments demonstrated that barley films were resistant in gastric conditions, yet can still be completely degraded by intestinal enzymes, and they possess low cytotoxicity to Caco-2 cells. The prepared barley films have potential for development as delivery systems for gastric-sensitive bioactive compounds to the intestine for release.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".