Message from Isla Browning via Robert Burns( my E mail is out of order)
My son is writing up a school project in which he carried out
experiments to calculate the Km of alkaline phosphatase acting on
p-nitrophenylphosphate in both ELISA, and when the enzyme is free in
solution. The experiments were carried out at 25C and at a pH of 9.8.
The result was Km= 0.246 for the immobilised enzyme and 0.505 for the
free solution. I would be grateful for any comments on these results.
It means that there was greater affinity of the enzyme for the
substrate when it was immobilised, which is not what we expected.
Isla Browning
Diagnostics and Molecular Biology Section
SASA
Edinburgh
Tel 0131 244 8916
Robert Burns
Monoclonal Antibody Unit
Scottish Agricultural Science Agency
East Craigs
Edinburgh
Scotland
burns at sasa.gov.uk
