Abstract
It has been generally believed that denaturation of an enzyme always coincided with its inactivation. Insoluble urease was prepared from once-recrystallized urease. The material was insoluble in water or dilute phosphate buffer and was highly active, although less so than soluble urease. It gave a strong nitroprusside test for sulfhydryl groups and was much more resistant to digestion by commercial trypsin at pH 7 and 30 C than the same material after boiling. Evidently the reactions which occurred when urease was denatured in this manner did not destroy all of the active groups.

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