“…Because of a bulky hydrophilic part of polysaccharide, the interactions among hydrophobic amino acid residues was weakened, which could further suppress the formation of aggregates among protein molecules. Thus, the heat-induced aggregation of WPI was highly inhibited due to the reduced hydrophobicity and this shift sequentially hindered the consolidation of gelation network based on attractive coalescence among more protein molecules (Bon, Nicolai, & Durand, 1999;Xu, Yang, Yu, Qi, Guo, Sun, et al, 2010). Moreover, the steric hindrance effect, naturally generated by the conjugation of high molecular weight dextan, could also suppress intermolecular association among the neighboring proteins in aqueous solution.…”