Cellulase_unit

Cellulase unit

Cellulase unit

Add article description

A cellulase unit (CU) is a unit of measurement for the enzyme cellulase. One cellulase unit is that activity that will produce a relative fluidity change of one in 5 minutes in a defined carboxymethylcellulose substrate under the conditions of an assay (50 deg Celsius, pH 4.5).[1] Cellulases enzymatically split cellulose[2] into a variety of hexoses, this is called hydrolysis.

References

  1. [1]
    Eagle Pack Archived February 21, 2009, at the Wayback Machine, additional text.
  2. [2]
    GMO Database Archived 2009-06-27 at the Wayback Machine, function and food application.


Stub icon

This enzyme-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Cellulase_unit, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.