title: Can dietary fibre help provide safer food products for sufferers of gluten intolerance? A well-established biophysical probe may help towards providing an answer.
abstract: Gluten intolerance is a condition which affects an increasing percentage of the world's population and for which the only current treatment is a restrictive gluten free diet. However could the inclusion of a particular polysaccharide, or blends of different types, help with the provision of 'safer' foods for those individuals who suffer from this condition? We review the current knowledge on the prevalence, clinical symptoms and treatment of gluten intolerance, and the use and properties of the allergens responsible. We consider the potential for dietary fibre polysaccharides to sequester peptides that are responsible for activation of the disease in susceptible individuals, and consider the potential of co-sedimentation in the analytical ultracentrifuge as a molecular probe for finding interactions strong enough to be considered as useful.
authors.affiliation: Department of Food Engineering, Abant Izzet Baysal University, 14280, Bolu, Turkey. kok_s@ibu.edu.tr.
authors.forename: M Samil
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Kök
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gillis
authors.forename: Shirley
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ang
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lafond
authors.forename: Arthur S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Tatham
authors.forename: Gary
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Adams
authors.forename: Stephen E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Harding