Abstract: Four protein isolates including albumin, globulin, gliadin and glutenin were extracted from rice bran using the Osbron method and their functional properties were evaluated. Albumin, globulin, gliadin and glutenin accounted for 56.93%, 20.84%, 3.167% and 19.06% of total proteins in rice bran, respectively, and their isoelectric points were 4.0, 4.0, 5.0 and 4.6, respectively. Comparative evaluation of functional properties showed that albumin possessed the highest water-binding capacity but the weakest foaming capacity at the isoelectric point, and glutenin had the highest emulsibility. SDS-PAGE suggested that the subunit molecular weights were 95.43, 76.51 kD and 52.85 kD for albumin, 103.12 kD and 76.51 kD for globulin, 14 kD for gliadin, and 36.29, 20.00 kD and 14.00 kD for glutenin, respectively.

Key words: rice bran proteins, extraction, functional properties, subunit