Nonreversibility in the Reductive Denaturation of Chymotrypsinogen A

Autor: Brown Jc, Horton Hr
Rok vydání: 1972
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Zdroj: Experimental Biology and Medicine. 140:1451-1455
ISSN: 1535-3699
1535-3702
DOI: 10.3181/00379727-140-36694
Popis: SummaryInvestigation of the air-reoxidation of denatured, fully reduced chymotrypsinogen A resulted in a maximum recovery of 1.4% of enzymatically active chymotrypsin upon treatment with trypsin. Under the same conditions, urea-denatured chymotrypsinogen, which had not been reduced, yielded 100% recovery of enzymatic activity. Thus the biologically functional conformation of the polypeptide chain comprising chymotrypsinogen may not be that of greatest thermodynamic stability.
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