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RESEARCH ARTICLE

Digestion of Wool Keratin by Papain-Bisulphite-Urea and Related Systems

FG Lennox

Australian Journal of Biological Sciences 5(1) 189 - 209
Published: 1952

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.

https://doi.org/10.1071/BI9520189

© CSIRO 1952

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