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. 2010 Jan 29;285(13):9803–9812. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M109.033944

TABLE 3.

Purification of GMPMT from M. smegmatis

Purification steps Activity Specific activity Purification
unitsa units/mg protein -fold
Crude extract 116,000 170 1
Ammonium sulfate (35–75% fraction) 85,000 290 2
DE52 column (0.3 m NaCl) 51,000 1,500 9
Sephacryl-100 column 15,000 15,200 89

a One unit of enzyme is defined as 1 nmol of maltose converted to glycogen in a 20-min incubation.