Extracellular enzyme activity is a well-established parameter for evaluating microbial biogeochemical roles in marine ecosystems. The presence and of extracellular enzymes seawater provide insights into the quality quantity organic matter being processed by present microorganisms. A key challenge our understanding these processes to decode repertoire activities natural communities at single-cel...

Partially purified neutral protease was entrapped in calcium alginate beads and characterized using casein as a substrate. Temperature and pH maxima of the enzyme showed no changes before and after immobilization and remained stable at 50°C and 7.5 respectively. However substrate concentration for maximum enzyme activity of immobilized enzyme was shifted from 0.45% to 0.8%. Reaction time for im...

The performance of a fiberoptic probe colorimeter (model PC800; Brinkmann Instruments, Inc., Westbury, N.Y.) for quantitating enzymatic or colorimetric assays in 96-well microtiter plates was compared with the performances of a spectrophotometer (model 240; Gilford Instrument Laboratories, Inc., Oberlin, Ohio) and a commercially available enzyme immunoassay reader (model MR590; Dynatech Laborat...

Lysosomal storage diseases (LSDs) are a group of more than 50 genetic disorders. Clinical symptoms are caused by the deficiency of specific enzyme (enzymes) function and resultant substrate accumulation in the lysosomes, which leads to impaired cellular function and progressive tissue and organ dysfunction. Measurement of lysosomal enzyme activity plays an important role in the clinical diagnos...