Alginase in the Sea Urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus
Abstract
Viscosimetric evidence of alginase activity is given for the intestine and the intestinal contents of a sea urchin. The alginase activity of the gut wall and that of the contents of the gut differ in pH optima; this suggests that there may be two sources of alginase. The enzyme (or enzymes) depolymerizes algin.
- Publication:
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Science
- Pub Date:
- January 1959
- DOI:
- 10.1126/science.129.3343.214
- Bibcode:
- 1959Sci...129..214E