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Science 8 January 1960:
Vol. 131. no. 3393, pp. 101 - 102
DOI: 10.1126/science.131.3393.101-a
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Glucuronidase Activation: Enzyme Action at an Interface

Michael T. Ryan 1 and C. A. Mavrides 1

1 Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

The potentiating action of chloroform on bacterial beta-glucuronidase has been shown to increase as the interface area between the two liquid phases increases. Prior extraction of the enzyme with chloroform causes a loss rather than an increase in activity. It is tentatively suggested that the correlation between activity and interface area may reflect a phenomenon of enzyme action at a liquid/liquid interface.


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Assay of beta-Glucuronidase.
A. S. Zygmuntowicz, M. L. Burrans, and C. G. Colburn (1960)
Science 131, 1628
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