Effect of Sodium Chloride on Limulus Amebocyte Lysate

Summary

Concentrations of sodium chloride up to 3 M increase the time necessary for the clot formation from Limulus amebocyte lysate (LAL) induced with endotoxin. Sodium chloride at a concentration of 4 M prevents clot formation by either precipitation or denaturation of procoagulase. The time necessary for the activation of procoagulase by endotoxin is increased by a change in the sodium chloride concentration from 0.15 M to 0.588 M. No effect on the proteolytic phase or the polymerization phase of the clotting reaction is detected by the increase in sodium chloride concentration from 0.15 M to 0.588 M. The authors conclude that increased sodium chloride concentrations may aid the isolation of procoagulase.

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