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. 2005 Feb 22;386(Pt 2):315–324. doi: 10.1042/BJ20041156

Table 1. Purification of DPPII from human seminal plasma.

Step Total protein (mg) Total activity (units)* Specific activity (units/mg) Yield (%) Purification (-fold)
Seminal fluid 5458 54 0.0096 100 1
Con A–Sepharose 135 58 0.43 107 45
Zinc-chelating Sepharose 33 51 1.6 94 163
Lys-Pip 1.1 27 24 50 2536
HiTrap Q 0.3 24 70 44 7309

* One unit is defined as the amount of enzyme that cleaves 1 μmol of Lys-Ala-pNA per min under the assay conditions as described in the Material and methods section.