glutenin

English

Etymology

From gluten +‎ -in.

Noun

glutenin (countable and uncountable, plural glutenins)

1. (biochemistry) The glutelin protein of wheat.

   Hypernym: glutelin

   Coordinate term: gliadin

   • 2004, Harold McGee, chapter 10, in On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, Scribner, →ISBN:

     The gliadin chains fold onto themselves in a compact mass, and bond weakly with each other and with the glutenin proteins. The glutenins, however, bond with each other in several ways to form an extensive, tightly knit network.

Translations

gluten protein of wheat

• Finnish: gluteniini (fi)
• Galician: glutenina (gl) f
• German: Glutenin n
• Italian: glutenina (it) f
• Japanese: グルテニン (gurutenin)
• Spanish: glutenina f

See also

• gluten

Further reading

• glutenin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• enluting