Digestion of Wool Keratin by Papain-Bisulphite-Urea and Related Systems
- 1 January 1952
- journal article
- research article
- Published by CSIRO Publishing in Australian Journal of Biological Sciences
- Vol. 5 (1) , 189-209
- https://doi.org/10.1071/bi9520189
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.Keywords
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