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ISOLATION, PURIFICATION AND
CHARACTERISATION OF ENZYMES
Steps involved in isolation of a protein or enzyme:
1) Cell disruption (which can done via a number of number of
different processes of choice e.g Detergents lysis, Osmolysis, freeze-
thaw cycles, enzymatic lysis, ultrasonication, Homogenisation)
2) Centrifugation (at a specific speed depending on the organ,
tissue, organelle or fluid).
3) Removal of supernatant (Decantation to obtain supernatant)3) Removal of supernatant (Decantation to obtain supernatant)
A HOMOGENIZER
A CENTRIFUGE
Steps involved in purification of a protein or enzyme:
1) Salt precipitation using (NH4)2SO4
2) Dialysis
3) Size exclusion chromatography (also called Gel filtration
or Molecular sieving)
4) Ion exchange chromatography
5) Affinity chromatography
ENZYME ACTIVITY, SPECIFIC ACTIVITY,
PURIFICATION FOLD & YIELD
CALCULATIONS USING TABLES CONTAINING ENZYME ACTIVITIES
ENZYME CHARACTERISATIONEnzyme characterisation simply refers to the determination of the various chemical
and physical properties (characteristics) of an enzyme. It involves the use of a series
of laboratory procedures. Examples of assays for commonly characterised enzyme
properties in biochemical researches include:
1) Determination of the effect of changes in temperature on enzyme’s activity
and optimum temperature.
2) Determination of enzyme’s thermal stability.
3) Determination of the effect of changes in pH on enzyme’s activity and
optimum pH.
4) Determination of pH stability.
5) Determination of the effect of changes in substrate concentration on 5) Determination of the effect of changes in substrate concentration on
enzyme’s activity and kinetic constants e.g Vmax, Km, Kcat, Km/Kcat etc.
6) Determination of substrate specificity
7) Determination of molecular weight (Mw) of enzyme
8) Determination of the effect of metal ions, chelating agent or denaturating
agents.
9) Determination of enzyme’s isoelectric point (pI)
10) Determination of the effect of duration of incubation.
11) Determination of active site fractional saturation (V/Vmax) at a particular
substrate concentration.
12) Determination of Enzyme’s turnover number (Vmax/ET)
13) Determination of activation energy (Ea)
14) Determination of salt tolerance
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