Enzyme Assays

Protease assay kit with multiple vials.

PDQ Protease Assay™

The PDQ™ Protease Assay is a unique colorimetric assay used to detect protease activity in aqueous samples. The proprietary substrate responds to a wide range of proteases, including serine, metallo, aspartate, and cysteine proteases such as collagenase, proteinase K, papain, pepsin, bromelin, ficin, trypsin, and chymotrypsin. PDQ™ can be used with just a few simple steps to measure protease activity and requires no centrifugation. The substrate is a cross-linked matrix containing a protein substrate and a dye-protein conjugate. Protease activity is detected spectrophotometrically with increasing optical density proportional to increasing enzyme activity and can detect nanogram quantities. Each kit is supplied with a trypsin solution for generating standard curves (BAEE equivalent units). PDQ™ is supplied in 48 ready-to-use plastic vials.

Time-Course Protease Analysis

The graph on the right shows the time-course degradation of the PDQ™ Protease Assay substrate by papain, chymotrypsin, proteinase K, and collagenase. Duplicate reactions were incubated at 37 °C, and 0.2 N NaOH was added to the vials to stop the reaction at the indicated times. The absorbance at 450 nm was measured by transferring the reaction mixture to spectrophotometric cuvettes. The results of this experiment show the increased absorption over time due to proteolytic degradation of the substrate and the ability of the assay to detect a wide range of proteases.

Order # Product Name Unit Price
0201PDQ Protease AssayKit, 48 Assays$190.50
Graph of protease detection assay results.

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PDQ Protease Assay™

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