Keratin sponge: immobilization of lysozyme.
A porous wool keratin sponge was used for immobilization of lysozyme, a model bioactive substance and was demonstrated to be a unique biomaterial in terms that the activity of lysozyme linked to the sponge through disulfide bond was gradually released, while lysozyme through thioether bond was stably maintained.
Kurimoto
Ayako
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Department of Applied and Bioapplied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka City University, 3-3-138 Sugimoto, Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka 558-8585, Japan.
Tanabe
Toshizumi
T
Tachibana
Akira
A
Yamauchi
Kiyoshi
K