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Biospecific chromatography of chymosin on quinonated Sepharose and its application to enzyme content determination in rennets
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 June 2009
Summary
An insoluble benzoquinone derivative, obtained by reacting benzoquinone with Sepharose 4B and subsequent deactivation with ethanolamine, selectively absorbed chymosin from a mixture of milk-clotting enzymes and other proteins such as in rennets. This selective absorption has been used for developing a purification method and for quantitatively estimating the chymosin content of commercial rennets. Thus, from a powdered calf rennet, it was possible to obtain in one step an 8-fold purified chymosin free of bovine pepsins. The proposed analytical test involves 2 milk-clotting activity measurements and a chromatographic elution of the sample on a quinonated Sepharose column. It can be applied directly to commercial rennets, because it does not require pre-dialysis of the sample against the elution buffer. Furthermore, a combination of quinonated Sepharose and DEAE-cellulose chromatography gave a method for isolation of bovine pepsin I from rennets.
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