> Subject: enzymes
> From: dowdeswm at meena.cc.uregina.ca at internet
> Date: 7/14/95 22:54
>> I need a specific example of an enzyme that will denature and undergo
> renaturation. If anyone can help please provide the name of the enzyme,
> where it is found and what it does, what conditions cause denaturation,
> and what conditions cause renaturation. Also please specify if the
> renaturation can occur when the enzyme is isolated in a test tube, or if
> chaperones are needed to obtain the correct tertiary structure.
>> Thanks for any help you can provide.
>> Marla Dowdeswell
> University of Regina, Saskatchewan
>There is, of course, that classic known to all molecular biologists:
RNase.
Denaturation: boiling
Renaturation: virtually anything except boiling...