Description

• Specificity: A mixture of at least three proteolytic activities including an extracellular serine protease. In general, serine proteases display a wide range of substrate specificities, which are believed to be mediated by an active site composed of one Asp, one His, and a Ser residue in the molecule. This enzyme prefers to hydrolyze peptide bonds on the carboxyl side of glutamic or aspartic acid.
• Application: Protease is typically used in nucleic acid isolation procedures in incubations of 0.5-3.0 hours supplemented with 0.2% sodium dodecyl sulfate and 10 mM EDTA.
• Other Notes: An unusually non-specific protease.
• Quality: Contains approximately 25% calcium acetate.
• Physical properties: Completely inactivated by heating above 80 °C for 15-20 minutes.
• Unit Definition: One unit will hydrolyze casein to produce color equivalent to 1.0 μmole (181 μg) of tyrosine per min at pH 7.5 at 37 °C (color by Folin-Ciocalteu reagent).
• Preparation Note: Collected from culture broth of S. griseus.