1. A method is described for extraction and partial purification of mitochondrial l-3-glycerophosphate dehydrogenase from pig brain. 2. By the criteria that have so far been applied, the extraction and purification procedures do not modify the activity of the enzyme towards artificial electron acceptors. 3. The amounts of acid-liberatable flavine and iron in the preparation were measured. 4. A ...

Growing applications of phenylalanine dehydrogenase (PheDH) enzyme in the medical and pharmaceutical industries encourages researchers to seek simple, fast and economical alternative purification methods. With goal of finding a new technique, the extraction and purification of recombinant Bacillus badius PheDH in polyethylene glycol 6000 (PEG-6000) and ammonium sulfate aqueous two-phase systems...

Guanosine 5’-diphospho-β-l-fucose (GDP-Fuc) is an important and expensive nucleotide sugar only available in low quantities. We established two processes for the gram-scale production of GDP-Fuc with multi-enzyme cascades. used bifunctional enzyme fucokinase/GDP-fucose pyrophosphorylase from Bacteroides fragilis either ATP-regeneration system using polyphosphate or excess ATP. The optimized mod...

aquatic animals are important resources for extraction of valuable compounds such as enzymes. in this study, lipase was extracted from the intestine of rainbow trout. samples were defatted with acetone several times; ammonium sulphate (60%) was used for precipitation followed by ultrafiltration for concentrating the samples. the final purification of the enzyme was performed by passing of the s...

Purification of Bovine Spleen Collagenolytic Cathepsin (Cathepsin N) ANDRE DUCASTAING* and DAVID J. ETHERINGTON Agricultural Research Council, Meat Research Institute, Langford, Bristol BS18 I D Y , U.K. The lysosomai enzymes cathepsin B and collagenolytic cathepsin are believed to have a physiological role in the turnover and resorption of collagen (Etherington, 1977). Collagenolytic cathepsin...

We previously described in a paper published in BIOS an undergraduate lab activity involving the gene cloning, expression, and purification of Thermus aquaticus (Taq) DNA polymerase, an enzyme used in the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Based on the large number of requests for biological materials and questions about the protocols this paper invoked, we explored methods to simplify the protei...

The main drawback when using aqueous two-phase systems for macromolecule purification is the high cost of most polymers used. The purification of an enzyme, alcohol dehydrogenase, from a crude extract of Saccharomyces cerevisiae was tested in systems composed of poly(ethylene glycol) and a crude hydroxypropyl starch or Reppal PES 100, a purified fraction of hydroxypropyl starch. Purification fa...

A rapid process for purification of an extracellular beta-xylosidase with high purity was developed. The manipulation involved the precipitation of protein from culture medium and the extraction of enzyme from the resuspended crude protein solution by an aqueous-two phase separation. A linear random copolymer, PE62, with 20% ethylene oxide and 80% propylene oxide was employed in both stages of ...