Amino acid profile for gelatins used to develop the immobilization matrices.

Composition of amino acids

Amino acid (g/100 g of sample)
200 220 240 280
Bloom Bloom Bloom Bloom
Aspartic acid 4.42 4.81 5.04 4.92
Glutamic acid 8.91 9.20 9.29 9.37
Hydroxyproline 9.23 9.43 9.41 9.84
Serine 3.17 3.48 3.30 3.60
Glycine 22.42 23.36 23.20 24.2
Histidine 0.70 0.92 0.71 1.11
Arginine 8.55 9.21 9.01 8.82
Threonine 1.62 1.67 1.73 1.74
Alanine 8.90 9.05 9.19 9.88
Proline 12.91 13.02 13.43 14.22
Tyrosine 0.58 0.60 0.61 0.49
Valine 1.99 2.26 2.26 2.32
Methionine 0.70 0.74 0.76 0.70
Cystine 0.48 0.62 0.46 0.49
Isoleucine 1.39 1.43 1.52 1.62
Leucine 2.68 2.94 3.05 3.01
Phenylalanine 1.81 2.23 2.29 1.91
Lysine 3.29 3.35 3.35 3.49
Total 93.75 98.32 98.61 101.72

Tryptophan is not pre- sent due to its possible degradation in the hydrolysis stage
employed in the method adopted to obtain the amino acid profile.