Chromogenic compounds and their use as enzyme substrates

US4457866A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Behringwerke Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Hermann E. Karges · Marburg, DE
• Helmut Heber · Marburg, DE
• Rainer Uhmann · Kriftel, DE
• Volker Teetz · Hofheim, DE
• Rolf Geiger · Frankfurt am Main, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 19, 1982
• Grant date: Jul 3, 1984
• Expiry date: Oct 19, 2002

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S930/28
• WIPO field: Biotechnology
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

What are disclosed are chromogenic peptides useful as substrates for the detection and determination of enzymes having a hydrolytic action and methods for detecting and determining enzymes with such peptides.