Pectinase is a macerating enzyme comprised of pectintranseliminase, polygalacturonase, pectinesterase, xylanase, hemicellulases and cellulases. Pectinase is used in plant protoplast preparation to digest cell wall prior to organelle isolation. Pectinase causes random hydrolysis of…

Glucose oxidase is an FAD-containing glycoprotein. The enzyme is specific for β-D-glucose. O can be replaced by hydrogen acceptors such as 2,6-dichlorophenol indophenol. Glucose oxidase from Aspergillus niger is a dimer consisting of 2 equal subunits with a molecular mass of 80 kDa each. Each…

α-Thrombin is a trypsin-like serine protease involved in a multitude of processes in the human body. Thrombin generation is the result of limited proteolysis of the vitamin K-dependent zymogen prothrombin. Thrombin is the last enzyme in the clotting cascade functioning to cleave fibrinogen to…

HRP is a plant glycohemoprotein that belongs to the ferroprotoporphyrin group of peroxidases. HRP is composed of seven isozymes. All isozymes contain photohemin IX as prosthetic group. Neutral and amino sugars account for approximately 18% of the enzyme. The iron-containing hemin group is…

β-Galactosidase cleaves terminal galactose residues, which are β -1-->14 linked to a monosaccharide, glycopeptide, or oligosaccharide. The enzyme requires Mg2+ for optimal activity. β-Galactosidase is useful for the structural investigation of carbohydrate, the determination of…

Petctinase is an enzyme from Rhizopus sp. that is used in plant protoplast preparation to digest cell wall prior to organelle isolation. It has been used to digest the cell wall of Arabidopsis root cells to study peroxin 16 in peroxisomes and endoplasmic reticulum. Pectinases are used to study…

Yeast lytic enzyme is used to digest the cell wall of active yeast cells. Yeast lytic enzyme is an enzyme preparation from a submerged culture of Arthrobacter luteus which effectively lyses cell walls of viable yeast cell. It is a lyophilized enzyme partially purified by affinity chromatography.…

Streptokinase catalyzes hydrolysis of amide linkages. Forms a 1:1 complex with plasminogen which is then converted to streptokinase-plasmin. Both streptokinase-plasminogen and streptokinase-plasmin complexes can activate plasminogen. As a result of its interaction with human or rabbit plasminogen,…

Thrombin is used throughout the diagnostics industry in a variety of coagulation assays, clotting factor tests and defibrination of blood or plasma for serum controls. Thrombin is also used for site specific cleavage of recombinant fusion proteins, and in biochemical and medical research…