The Journal of General Physiology, Vol 17, 393-398,
Copyright © 1934 by The Rockefeller University Press
THE EQUILIBRIUM BETWEEN ACTIVE NATIVE TRYPSIN AND 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
There is a mobile equilibrium between the native and denatured forms of trypsin which depends on the concentrations of acid, alkali, and alcohol and on the temperature.
The heat of denaturation in 0.01 N hydrochloric acid calculated from the effect of temperature on the equilibrium constant is 67,600 calories per mole.
Accepted on October 5, 1933