Lipoprotein lipase activity of the fungusRhizopus microsporus

A method is described for the isolation and purification of lipoprotein lipase activity from the culture liquid of the fungusRhizopus microsporus. Some properties of the homogeneous enzyme have been studied: molecular weight 43,000, pI 3.7.Institute of Microbiology, Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR, Tashkent. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 3, pp. 373–376, May–June, 1981.