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Record W4408418159 · doi:10.1002/sfp2.70005

A Rapid High‐Throughput Method for Determining Albumin and Globulin Contents in Pea and Soybean Seeds

2025· article· en· W4408418159 on OpenAlex
Pankaj Bhowmik, Brittany Polley, Iain Wallace, John Muirhead, Zachery R. Belak, Muralikrishna Narra

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Bibliographic record

VenueSustainable Food Proteins · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicProteins in Food Systems
Canadian institutionsMicropharma (Canada)Saskatchewan Research Council (Canada)
FundersNational Research Council CanadaMinistry of Agriculture - Saskatchewan
KeywordsGlobulinAlbuminBiologyBiochemistryImmunology

Abstract

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ABSTRACT Protein fractionation and characterization are essential to understanding the functional properties of seed proteins, which are valuable ingredients for modern plant breeding and the food industry. To address the need for a rapid, cost‐effective, and high‐throughput (HPT) method for assessing the albumin/globulin ratio in pea and soybean, we adopted a selective extraction procedure using a high‐salt buffer at neutral pH. We have further modified this method for highly selective extraction that operates on a microscale, utilizing approximately 20 mg of seed meal per assay, which has been highlighted with improved efficiency and accuracy. This approach mitigates issues of cross‐contamination between albumin and globulin fractions that are encountered in older methods. The albumin/globulin ratios for extracted protein isolates were obtained by applying the Bradford method. The findings of the HPT technique have remained within usual ranges, in contrast to large‐scale extraction (LSE). The albumin/globulin ratios of green peas were 0.12 ± 0.01 and 0.13 ± 0.01, attained by LSE and HTP, respectively. The LSE and HTP values for soybeans were 0.14 ± 0.01. The protein isolates from yellow pea yielded the results of 0.17 ± 0.02 using LSE and 0.19 ± 0.02 with HTP. The assay was validated by comparing the albumin/globulin fractions with electrophoretograms, which are obtained by curve integration of Coomassie blue‐stained SDS‐PAGE gels of pea and soybean seed protein isolates. This method was also successfully applied to analyze commercially available green and yellow pea varieties, each exhibiting distinct albumin/globulin ratios, emphasizing the effectiveness and distinctive functionality of this method.

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Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.782
Threshold uncertainty score0.511

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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Opus teacher head0.021
GPT teacher head0.262
Teacher spread0.241 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it