Abnormal effect of mercury ions on bilirubin oxidase activity

✍ Scribed by Yuji Seki; Masayuki Takeguchi; Sawao Murao; Takashi Shin; Ichiro Okura

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 177 KB
• Volume: 96
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1381-1169
• DOI: 10.1016/1381-1169(94)00055-7

✦ Synopsis

Purification of bilirnbin oxidase (BOX) from

Penicillium junthinellum was carried out and the effect of metal ions on BOX activity was studied, and in presence of mercury ion, a remarkable increase of the activity was observed.