Affiliation:
1. From the Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York
Abstract
1. A method is described for the preparation of a highly purified ascorbic acid oxidase containing 0.24 per cent copper.
2. Using comparable activity measurements, this oxidase is about one and a half times as active on a dry weight basis as the hitherto most highly purified preparation described by Lovett-Janison and Nelson. The latter contained 0.15 per cent copper.
3. The oxidase activity is proportional to the copper content and the proportionality factor is the same as that reported by Lovett-Janison and Nelson.
4. When dialyzed free of salt, the blue concentrated oxidase solutions precipitate a dark green-blue protein which carries the activity. This may be prevented by keeping the concentrated solutions about 0.1 M in Na2HPO4.
5. When highly diluted for activity measurements the oxidase rapidly loses activity (irreversibly) previous to the measurement, unless the dilution is made with a dilute inert protein (gelatin) solution. Therefore activity values obtained using such gelatin-stabilized dilute solutions of the oxidase run considerably higher than values obtained by the Lovett-Janison and Nelson technique.
6. The effect of pH and substrate concentration on the activity of the purified oxidase in the presence and absence of inert protein was studied.
Publisher
Rockefeller University Press
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