AbstractsChemistry

During the last decade, increasing interest has been shown in the isolation of large quantities of pure amino acids from proteins, for nutritional and medicinal therapy, and for other pure and applied research problems. Much progress has been made in improving methods of fractionation of protein hydrolysates, but most methods are still unsatisfactory. Fairly good methods have been devis for the isolation of basic and acidic amino acids, but the neutral amino acids are considerably more difficult to separate. [...]