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  • Title: Mathematical treatment of data for calculating activities of alpha-amylase isoenzymes.
    Author: Redondo FL.
    Journal: Clin Chem; 1987 May; 33(5):689-91. PubMed ID: 2436833.
    Abstract:
    Methods for determining alpha-amylase isoenzymes by selective inhibition with a wheat-germ protein are practical and easy, and give accurate, precise results. The incomplete specificity of the inhibitory action is not a major drawback but does necessitate mathematical treatment of the data (i.e., enzymic activities measured before and after preincubation with the inhibitor) to ascertain the amount of the different isoamylases. Such an algorithm is quite simple and straightforward, because the isoenzymes can be calculated either arithmetically or geometrically, by using a linear standard curve, empirically obtained, that relates the fraction of activity remaining after inhibition (R/T) to the pancreatic isoenzyme fraction or to the percentage of total alpha-amylase (P/T or 100 X P/T). An alternative method, plotting R/T against the ratio of pancreatic to salivary isoenzyme (P/S), is inconvenient, necessarily yields a nonlinear curve, needlessly complicates the calculations, and has been a persistent source of confusion in many articles dealing with the differentiation of isoamylases.
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