The Chia enzymes were purified from chicken glandular stomach or pig stomach tissue using a chitin bead column and eluted with 8 M urea, as described previously [16 (
link),17 (
link)].
The enzymes were also eluted from the columns with 0.1 M acetic acid. The eluted enzymes were neutralized and desalted with
PD10 (GE Healthcare, Piscataway, NJ, USA) equilibrated by TS buffer.
Protein concentrations were determined by the
Bradford Protein Assay (Bio-Rad Laboratories, Hercules, CA, USA) using
BioPhotometer Plus UV-vis equipment (Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany). Bovine serum albumin was used as the standard.
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