A quantitative technique for determining proteases and their substrate specificities and pH optima in crude enzyme extracts

Analytical Biochemistry

Volumn 388, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 56-62

  Budič, Maruška ^a,b   Kidrič, Marjetka ^b   Meglič, Vladimir ^a   Cigić, Blaž ^c  

^a AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE OF SLOVENIA   (Slovenia)

^b JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

AMC; Aminopeptidases; Fluorescence; Native PAGE; Zymography

Indexed keywords

ELECTROPHORESIS; FLUORESCENCE; SUBSTRATES;

7-AMINO-4-METHYLCOUMARIN; AMINOPEPTIDASES; EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURE; LINEARITY OF RESPONSE; NATIVE PAGES; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; QUANTITATIVE TECHNIQUES; ZYMOGRAPHY;

ENZYMES;

AMINOPEPTIDASE; PEPTIDASE;

ARTICLE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; NONHUMAN; PH; PHASEOLUS VULGARIS; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZYMOGRAPHY;

PHASEOLUS VULGARIS;

EID: 63149095247     PISSN: 00032697     EISSN: 10960309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ab.2009.01.045     Document Type: Article

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