The tannins of lentil seed coat were extracted and purified, allowed to interact with isolated lentil albumin and casein and studied turbidimetrically. The interactions of lentil albumin and casein with tannin at various tannin-to- protein ratios proved to be pH-independent and pH-dependent, respectively. In vitro trypsin hydrolysis of the proteins without tannins showed that the heating at 99°C/15 min. reduced the susceptibility of albumin and increased the susceptibility of casein to the enzyme. The influence of tannin-to-protein ratios (1:40; 1:20; 1:5. 1:2,5) on the in vitro tryptic hydrolysis was more inhibitory for casein than for lentil albumin when unheated or heated at 99°C/15 min. After heating both proteins were more hydrolyzed at all tannin-to-protein ratios. SDS-PAGE of the products of hydrolysis of native albumin-tannin interactions show that the extent of proteolysis is dependent of the protein-tannin ratio.
lentil; tannin-protein interaction; in vitro hydrolysis; Lens culinaris
