The Journal of General Physiology, Vol 16, 767-771,
Copyright © 1933 by The Rockefeller University Press
THE DIGESTION AND INACTIVATION OF MALTASE BY TRYPSIN AND THE SPECIFICITY OF MALTASES
Henry Tauber 1 and
Israel S. Kleiner 1
1 From the Department of Physiology and Physiological Chemistry of the New York Homeopathic Medical College and Flower Hospital, New York
1. The maltase of saliva and that of E. coli (B. coli communis) hydrolyze maltose but not
-methylglucoside or sucrose and are therefore to be considered glucomaltases.
2. Maltase is rapidly and completely inactivated and digested by trypsin.
Accepted on March 15, 1933