Abstract
We have examined the effect of conditioning the enzyme trypsin in solution at pH 8.2 in a large magnetic field before determining its reactivity towards a synthetic substrate N-benzoyl DL-arginine p-nitroanilide (BAPA). This “pretreatment” was allowed to proceed for as long as 3⅔ hr in a magnetic field of 208 kgauss at temperatures 26 and 36°C. No effect on reactivity was observed when such pretreated enzyme solutions were compared with identical but untreated enzyme solutions. A single such reaction, allowed to proceed directly in a magnetic field of 220 kgauss for 9 min, similarly showed no difference in rate from its control.
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