Abstract: To prepare a microorganism producing .alpha.-galactosidase, not only a DNA containing an .alpha.-galactosidase gene but also a vector which is appropriate to the transformable cells to be used and contains antibiotic resistance genes are completely split with restriction endonuclease Sal I, the fragment of approximately four megadaltons of relative molecular weight is obtained from the fragments of the DNA containing the .alpha.-galactosidase gene, is mixed with the solution of the vector also split with Sal I, and is recombined in the presence of DNA ligase with the formation of a recombinant DNA.

Abstract: The present invention provides a micro-organism of the species Escherichia coli or Pseudomonas putida, wherein it constitutively forms creatinamidinohydrolase.The present invention also provides a process for the production of such a micro-organism.

Abstract: The present invention provides a process for obtaining glucose dehydrogenase by culturing a micro-organism in an appropriate nutrient medium and obtaining the enzyme from the cell mass or from the culture medium, wherein the micro-organism cultured is Bacillus cereus DSM 1644. The nutrient medium used contains a carbon source which consists predominantly or solely of glycerol.

Abstract: The present invention provides a process for obtaining cholesterol esterase from micro-organisms of the genus Pseudomonas, wherein Pseudomonas sp. DSM 1280 or DSM 1281 is cultured in an appropriate culture medium in the presence of an inducer and the enzyme is obtained from the culture medium and/or from the cells.

Abstract: The present invention provides a process for obtaining cholesterol esterase from micro-organisms, wherein a micro-organism capable of cholesterol esterase formation is cultured in an appropriate nutrient medium in the presence of lecithin as inducer and the enzyme is obtained from the culture medium and/or from the cells.

Abstract: The present invention provides a process for obtaining cholesterol oxidase, wherein Streptomyces griseofuscus DSM 40191, Streptomyces hygroscopicus 40771, Streptomyces acidomyceticus DSM 40798 and/or Arthrobacter paraffinens DSM 312 are cultured and the enzyme obtained from the culture supernatant and/or the cells.

Abstract: A control reagent for heparin activity determination comprising20 to 1500 USP heparin,2000 to 30000 IU antithrombin III,0.15 to 1.5 millimoles serum albumin,0.005 to 0.05 mole ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid sodium salt,0 to 0.4 mole saccharose,2000 to 20000 U aprotinin, andbuffer substance, pH 6.5 to 7.5,per liter of control reagent solution.

Abstract: Cholesterol is determined by incubating a sample suspected of containing cholesterol in an aqueous medium with cholesterol oxidase and determining either the oxygen consumption, the hydrogen peroxide formed, or cholestenone, as a measure of the initial cholesterol content; reagent compositions comprising cholesterol oxidase and a system for the determination of H.sub.2 O.sub.2 or for the determination of cholestenone are provided.

Abstract: A novel peroxidase for reduced nicotinamide-adenine-dinucleotide is provided which peroxidase oxidizes reduced nicotinamide-adenine-dinucleotide with hydrogen peroxide to give nicotinamide-adenine-dinucleotide and water and is characterized by a Michaelis constant K.sub.Mto hydrogen peroxide of 2.8.times.10.sup.-5 M andto reduced nicotinamide-adenine-dinucleotide of 1.7.times.10.sup.-5 M,measured at 25.degree. C. in 0.2M tris buffer of pH 6.0, containing 0.1M potassium acetate. The peroxidase can be prepared by liberating the enzyme from Streptococcus faecalis ATCC 8043 by digestion or by treatment with a surface-active agent and isolating same from the enzyme solution obtained. Hydrogen peroxide is determined in a simple reaction or in a coupled reaction with a specific oxidase by contacting the said peroxidase with the H.sub.2 O.sub.2 producing reaction mixture at a pH of from 6.0 to 9.0 and measuring the change of extinction as a measure of H.sub.2 O.sub.

Abstract: Cholesterol oxidase free of unstabilizing residual traces of detergent is activated by adding to the cholesterol oxidase, before use thereof, at least one surface-active compound with lipophilic and hydrophilic properties. Diagnostic agents for determining cholesterol comprising cholesterol oxidase, a hydrogen peroxide detection system, a buffer, and at least one surface-active compound having lipophilic and hydrophilic properties are provided.

Abstract: A new enzyme, cholesteroloxidase, is prepared by recovering same from microorganisms, preferably by washing a cholesterol-converting microorganism with butanol/water, disintegrating the microorganism culture and extracting same with a buffer solution containing a non-ionic surface-active agent, and isolating cholesterol oxidase from the extract.

Abstract: Enzymes, particularly labile enzymes, and most particularly microorganism derived labile enzymes, are stabilized by adding thereto a stabilizing agent comprising a protein fraction obtained by extracting yeast with water at 80.degree. to 100.degree. C., mixing the clear extract with 5 - 20% wt./vol. trichloracetic acid and separating the precipitate obtained.

Abstract: Cholesterol oxidase which oxidizes cholesterol with oxygen to give cholestenone and hydrogen peroxide, is prepared by culturing Nocardia erthropolis ATCC 17895, Nocardia erthropolis ATCC 4277, Nocardia formica ATCC 14811 or Proactinomyce erythropolis NCIB 9158 first on a peptone-containing mineral salt medium and thereafter on at least one sterol compound as the sole source of carbon, and then isolating the cholesterol oxidase formed from the cultured micro-organism, wherein said sterol compound is of the formula ##STR1## in which R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are hydrogen or together represent a double bond,R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are hydrogen or together represent a double bond, andR.sub.5 is hydrogen or alkyl containing up to 3 carbon atoms.

Abstract: Carrier-bound proteins are prepared by reacting a protein in aqueous solution with a coupling compound having at least one group capable of acylating or alkylating proteins and at least one additional group capable of producing a bond with a carrier material, and reacting the resulting product with a carrier material, optionally forming the carrier material in situ by polymerization of a monomer or monomer mixture in the presence of said product.

Abstract: NADP-dependent dehydrogenases are separated and purified by subjecting mixtures containing it to affinity chromatography using as the affinity chromatography material a nucleotide with a phosphate group in the 2'- or 3'-position, bound to a solid carrier.

Abstract: The new enzyme steroid-.DELTA.-isomerase is provided, as well as a process for producing same, comprising digesting a micro-organism containing said isomerase, extracting same by destruction of the cell wall with a buffer solution containing a non-ionic surfactant, centrifuging the resulting mass and discarding the precipitate, applying the extract to an anion exchanger, eluting the enzyme with a buffer solution containing a non-ionic surfactant, heating the eluate, separating the precipitate and isolating the enzyme therefrom from the supernatant.