00000ctm a22000003a 4500 UP-8027390931313988311 Buklod 20170518155710.0 m |o d | ta 170518s xx d r |||| u| (iLib)UPVIS-00046506509 Gift VML/ess 5.18.17 eng LG 993.5 2006 C4 E88 Estores, Febe B. Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) prolamine isolation and partial purification. Febe B. Estores. 2006. x, 45 leaves graphs, tables, computer print-out. Thesis (Undergraduate, Bachelor of Science in Chemistry) College of Arts and Sciences, University of the Philippines Visayas, Miagao, Iloilo. More than 600 M people in Asia, Africa, and Latin America depend on cassava, mainly on its tubers, as their staple food. Those people that feed mainly on cassava often suffer from diseases like protein energy malnutrition because cassava is low in protein content -- about 1-3 percent on average. There is therefore a need to improve the protein content of this crop. For this to be possible, a better understanding of the proteins of cassava is needed., In this study, prolamine, one of the proteins found in cassava tuber, was isolated and partially purified. The protein was islated through Osborne fractionation and purified through gel filtration chromatography. The molecular weights of the components of prolamine were estimated through Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate-Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis. The estimated molecular weights of the protein components were found out to be kDa, 66 kDa, and 87 kDa. Cassava. Manihot esculenra Crantz. Topor, Vivian A. Adviser. UPVIS UPV-ML LG 993.5 2006 C4 E88 Thesis