Research Article

Benefits and Limitations of Lab-on-a-Chip Method over Reversed-Phase High-Performance Liquid Chromatography Method in Gluten Proteins Evaluation

Table 6

Correlation coefficients between relative amounts of gliadin subunits (α + γ and ω) and glutenin subunits (LMW and HWM) determined by LoaC and RP-HPLC methodsa.

% ω LoaCb% α + γ LoaCb% HMW LoaCc% LMW LoaCc% HMW/LMW LoaC% HMW LoaC totald

% ω HPLCb−0.127
% α + γ HPLCb−0.118
% HMW HPLCc0.338*
% LMW HPLCc0.341*
% HMW/LMW HPLC0.308
% HMW HPLC totald0.554***

Values are means (); , .
bExpressed as relative amount: percentage of individual α + γ and ω area to total area of gliadins.
cExpressed as relative amount: percentage of individual LMW and HMW area to total area of glutenins.
dExpressed as relative amount: percentage of individual HMW area to total HMW area.