Quantitative Determination of Gluten Protein Types in Wheat Flour by Reversed‐Phase High‐Performance Liquid Chromatography

ABSTRACT A combined extraction-HPLC procedure was developed on a microscale to determine the amounts of the different gluten protein types (ω5-, ω1,2-, α- and γ-gliadins; high molecular weight [HMW] and low molecular weight [LMW] glutenin subunits) in wheat flour. After preextraction of albumins and globulins from flour (100 mg) with a salt solution (2 × 1.0 mL), extraction of gliadins was achieved with 60% aqueous ethanol (3 × 0.5 mL). Subsequently, the glutenin subunits were extracted under nitrogen and at 60°C with 50% aqueous 1-propanol containing Tris-HCl (0.05 mol/L, pH 7.5), urea (2 mol/L) and dithioerythritol (1%). The separation and quantitative determination of gliadins and glutenin subunits was then performed by reversed-phase HPLC on C8 silica gel at 50°C using a gradient of increasing acetonitrile concentration in the presence of 0.1% trifluoroacetic acid. The flow rate was 1.0 mL/min, and the detection wavelength was 210 nm. Temperature and flow rate were modified for the quantitation of sin...

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