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Title:
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Estimating the helical pitch angle of amylopectin in starch using polarization second harmonic generation microscopy
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Author:
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Psilodimitrakopoulos, Sotiris; Amat Roldán, Iván; Loza Álvarez, Pablo; Artigas García, David
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Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Teoria del Senyal i Comunicacions; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. FOTONICA - Grup de Recerca de Fotònica |
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Abstract:
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Starch granules are among the brightest natural second harmonic generation (SHG) converters.
They basically consist of amylose and amylopectin molecules and the source of the SHG signal
is still undetermined. In the present study we perform polarization sensitive SHG (PSHG)
imaging of wheat starch granules and we fit the SHG signal variation of each pixel of the PSHG
images into a generalized biophysical model. By assuming that the SHG source molecule is a
helix with cylindrical symmetry along its long axis, the model extracts the helical pitch angle of
the SHG source for every pixel of the image. By displaying the pixel histogram representing
this helical pitch angle we found a highly peaked histogram with maximum at θe = 36.1◦ and a
width of θe = 9.3◦. This pitch angle corresponds to the strand of the parallel double helical
structure, called amylopectin (as measured by a small angle x-ray scattering technique). This
demonstrates amylopectin (and not amylose) as the source of SHG in starch. According to our
knowledge, this is the first estimation of the amylopectin’s pitch angle in starch using PSHG. |
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-Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria de la telecomunicació::Telecomunicació òptica::Fotònica
-Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria electrònica::Optoelectrònica::Làser
-Starch--Analysis
-Second harmonic generation
-Imaging systems in biology
-Amylopectins--Analysis
-Midó
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Article - Published version
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