“…A chickpea extract (C-E), B chickpea isoprecipitate, C chickpea cryoprecipitate, A s soybean isoprecipitate (Utsumi and Kinsella 1985), 20.6 and 10.0 (Sathe et al 1987) kDa. The estimated molecular weights of chickpea vicilin subunits, were 70.2, 50.7, 35.0, 33.6, 18.9 and 15.5 kDa and these subunits are comparable to 7S pea protein subunits (MW 50,35,33,19,15 and 13 kDa) reported by Gueguen (1991) and soybean 7S β-conglycinin subunits 70.6 (Sathe et al 1987), 52 (Nielsen 1985), 30.0 (Petruccelli and Anon 1995), and 18.0 (Sathe et al 1989) kDa. The chickpea extract containing the band A3 identified in Native PAGE, showed subunits of MW 54.3 kDa in SDS-PAGE; this is similar to the 55 kDa rice glutelin identified by Takaiwa et al (1999).…”