Methods of keratin extraction from poultry feathers and their effects on antioxidant activity of extracted keratin
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- DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2020.01.144
Methods of keratin extraction from poultry feathers and their effects on antioxidant activity of extracted keratin
Abstract
The antioxidant activities of extracted keratin from chicken feathers using different chemical treatments including 2-mercaptoethanol (TME), sodium sulfite (SS), and sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) were investigated using an in-vitro study. The results displayed that all of these methods have antioxidant potency. However, the reduction of keratin with SS displayed the best antioxidant potency with IC50 value of 0.533 ± 0.061 mg/mL using DPPH radical scavenging assay with a porous surface morphology as monitored by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Compared to raw feathers, all extracted keratins had lower decomposition temperatures and melting points investigated by thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) respectively. Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) confirmed that the extracted keratins maintained the most amides bonds in the procedure of alkaline extraction.
Keywords: Anti-oxidant activity; Chemical extraction; Chicken feather; Keratin.
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Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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