title: Relationship between the activity of soybean lipoxygenase 1 and the physicochemical characteristics of model food emulsion systems.
abstract: The paper describes the relationship between the physicochemical characteristics of model oi-in-water emulsion systems containing oil droplets and soluble fragments (monomers and micelles) and the activity of pure soybean lipoxygenase 1. The method of emulsification, as well as the chemistry and concentration of surfactant and substrate molecules, was manipulated to modify the overall physicochemical properties of ternary emulsions. The effect of these experimental factors on the size and relative concentration of oil droplets and soluble fragments was examined with static light scattering and turbidity measurements. Lipoxygenase 1 activity was assayed polarographically. Experimental factors that increase the critical micelle concentration of the monomers and facilitate their transport out of micelles, as well as across the oil-water interfaces and into the aqueous phase, were shown to improve the activity of the enzyme and vice versa.
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Biochemistry and Food Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: V G
authors.initials: VG
authors.lastname: Prima-Hartley
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Gray
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Taylor
mesh_terms: D004655:Emulsions; D005502:Food; D008084:Lipoxygenase / Q000378:metabolism*; D013025:Glycine max / Q000201:enzymology*
chemical_list: D004655:Emulsions; D008084:Lipoxygenase