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Cell homogenates of light-grown Ochromonas danica contained distinct non-specific non-phosphate-repressible acid and alkaline phosphohydrolase activities. Acid phosphohydrolase activity had a broad pH range of 2.0–5.0 and the optimum for alkaline phosphohydrolase activity was pH 8.6 Acid phosphohydrolase (pH 3.6) activity had an optimum temperature of 55°C; the alkaline enzyme activity had an optimum temperature of 37–40°C.
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This research was aided by grants GB7833 and 20825 to S. Aaronson from the National Science Foundation.
Taken in part from a thesis submitted by K. J. Holik for the M. S. at Wagner College.
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Patni, N.J., Aaronson, S., Holik, K.J. et al. Existence of acid and alkaline phosphohydrolase activity in the phytoflagellate Ochromonas danica . Arch. Microbiol. 97, 63–67 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00403045
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