gliadins

Noun

gliadin (countable and uncountable, plural gliadins)

1. A minor protein (along with gluten and glutelin) in wheat; it may cause a toxic reaction in some people.
   • Most of the gluten proteins, the gliadins and the glutenins, are around a thousand amino acids long. The gliadin chains fold onto themselves in a compact mass, and bond weakly with each other and with the glutenin proteins.2004, Harold McGee, chapter 10, in On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, Scribner, →ISBN

   Synonyms:

   glutin