The Journal of General Physiology, Vol 17, 159-164,
Copyright © 1933 by The Rockefeller University Press
THE ESTIMATION OF ACTIVE NATIVE TRYPSIN IN THE PRESENCE OF INACTIVE DENATURED TRYPSIN
M. L. Anson 1 and
A. E. Mirsky 1
1 From the Laboratories of The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, Princeton, N. J., and the Hospital of The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, New York
Inactive denatured trypsin changes into active native trypsin in the protein solutions which have been used to estimate tryptic activity. If the digestion mixture, however, is alkaline enough and contains enough urea this change does not take place. Such a digestion mixture can be used to estimate active native trypsin in the presence of inactive denatured trypsin.
Accepted on August 10, 1933