
%0 Journal Article
%A Lennox, FG 
%T Digestion of Wool Keratin by Papain-Bisulphite-Urea and Related Systems
%J Australian Journal of Biological Sciences
%D 1952/03/01
%V 5
%N 1
%P 189-209
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/BI9520189
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/BI9520189 
%X The digestion of wool in papain-bisulphite solutions is greatly enhanced by the addition of urea, t reaching completion within a few hours at 500 or 70°C. Both wool digestion and uptake of papain by wool from urea solutions proceed optimally at pH 7. 
