Enzymes play such a pivotal role in cellular metabolism that enzyme assays are important for bio-engineering, disease diagnoses and drug discovery. Among the reported methods, fluoremetry has attracted more and more attention due to its high sensitivity and possibility of continuous dynamic monitoring. The recent progresses and applications in enzyme assays using fluorescent probes were reviewe...

An enzymatic technique for cholesterol analysis in serum was applied to human bile. The analytical yield was very satisfactory in experiments in which known amounts of cholesterol were added to untreated, as well as Millipore-filtered, samples of human bile. The analytical results of the enzymatic test agreed closely with those of a method utilizing the Liebermann-Burchard reaction. The enzymat...

The influence of substrate and enzyme concentrations on the rate of saccharification of two defined insoluble cellulose substrates, Avicel (FMC Corp., Philadelphia, Pa.) and Solka-Floc (James River Co., Berlin, N.H.), by the cellulase enzyme system of Trichoderma viride was evaluated. In the assays, enzyme concentrations ranging from 0.004 to 0.016 IU/ml and substrate concentrations up to 10% (...

By incorporating an ester-containing substrate in a self-assembled alignment layer for liquid crystal cells, the presence of a lipase (CALB) can be directly detected through its enzymatic action on the alignment layer, without the need for fluorescent labelling or enzyme assays.

A novel screening approach based on an oligonucleotide-addressing enzyme assay enables multiplexed simultaneous profiling of DNA polymerases in nanoliter volumes in terms of their different properties. This approach was used to identify enzymes with altered properties out of a library of protein mutants.