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Ordered Water in Hydrated Solid-State Polysaccharide Systems

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Water Relationships in Foods

Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology ((AEMB,volume 302))

Abstract

Water molecules within a monolayer or so of macromolecular surfaces are often located in well-defined positions and have restricted mobility. These ordered water molecules play a role in stabilizing polysaccharide ordered structures and intermolecular interactions that are the basis of the rheological properties utilized in food systems. X-ray fiber diffraction can be used to determine the three-dimensional structures of polysaccharides in solid, but well-hydrated, polycrystalline fibers. In favorable cases, difference Fourier synthesis can be used to locate ordered water molecules in these systems, allowing one to visualize their functionally important interactions. These studies provide relevant evidence regarding water interactions in more hydrated systems and in solution. The functionality of ordered water in some polysaccharides used in food systems, as well as in some connective tissue glycosaminoglycans where the ordered water has been defined in considerable detail, as determined by fiber diffraction, is described in this chapter. These structures allow one to derive some general features of the role of ordered water in such systems.

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Millane, R.P., Arnott, S. (1991). Ordered Water in Hydrated Solid-State Polysaccharide Systems. In: Levine, H., Slade, L. (eds) Water Relationships in Foods. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 302. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0664-9_44

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