{"title":"Digestion of wool keratin by papain-bisulphite-urea and related systems.","authors":"F. Lennox","doi":"10.1071/BI9520189","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The digestion of wool in papain-bisulphite solutions is greatly enhanced by the addition of urea, t reaching completion within a few hours at 500 or 70°C. Both wool digestion and uptake of papain by wool from urea solutions proceed optimally at pH 7.","PeriodicalId":85978,"journal":{"name":"Australian journal of scientific research. Ser. B: Biological sciences","volume":"5 1 1","pages":"190-209"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1952-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1071/BI9520189","citationCount":"9","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Australian journal of scientific research. Ser. B: Biological sciences","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1071/BI9520189","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The digestion of wool in papain-bisulphite solutions is greatly enhanced by the addition of urea, t reaching completion within a few hours at 500 or 70°C. Both wool digestion and uptake of papain by wool from urea solutions proceed optimally at pH 7.