Annual Progress Report on Malting Barley Research March, 2007

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With starch as a substrate, iodine binding is impacted by both alpha-and beta-amylases. In order to make the method specific for alpha-amylase, beta-limit dextrin is used as substrate. Beta-limit dextrin is prepared by exhaustively reacting starch with a purified beta-amylase. Beta-amylase hydrolyzes starch from the non-reducing end to yield maltose. As it can not pass alpha-1,6 linkages in the starch, a beta-limit dextrin product results in addition to the maltose (figure 2). Beta-Amylase Alpha- 1, 6 branch + Maltose starch Beta-Limit Dextrin Figure 2. Preparation of beta-limit dextrin from starch using purified beta-amylase. Arrows show points at which beta-amylase can hydrolyze alpha-1,4 linkages in starch. In theory, the beta-limit dextrin can no longer be attacked by beta-amylase, and its use as a substrate makes the method specific for alpha-amylase. Alpha-amylase is an endo-enzyme, meaning it attacks the beta-limit dextrin internally and forms small oligosaccharides (figure 3). Loss of iodine binding is thus believed only to be associated only with the alpha-amylase in the malt sample. 78
Beta-limit dextrin Alpha-Amylase Alpha- 1, 6 branch Small dextrin + sugars Figure 3. Endo-activity of alpha-amylase on beta-limit dextrin substrate. Products are small dextrins and sugars. As the size of the substrate decreases, the ability to bind iodine is lost. However, the situation is not as simple as presented in figure 3. Starch (amylopectin) is described as being composed of A, B and C-Chains. The C-chain is the central chain carrying the reducing group, while the outermost A-chains are unbranched. While the Bchains are branched, they may have very long unbranched segments. Figure 4 shows a representative diagram of a portion of the starch molecule (the complete molecule may contain > 1 x 10 6 glucose residues). The shaded circles show glucose residues that would be initially removed by beta-amylase (as maltose) in the preparation of beta-limit dextrin. However, when the beta-limit dextrin is used in the assay of alpha-amylase, its action opens up these unbranched B-chain residues, and they then become susceptible to beta-amylase. The glucose residues that would become susceptible to beta-, only after attack by alpha-amylase are shown with striped circles. The length of these susceptible unbranched B-regions can be considerable (>50 glucose) and they are associated with iodine binding. As such, it seems possible that the use of beta-limit dextrin in the assay of malt alpha-amylase may not completely eliminate interference from beta-amylase. 79
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