• Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.752-757
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• 1997

Crude papain extracted at optimum condition was purified with an ethanol precipitation method. Four factors of protein recovery method were optimized by response surface methodology (RSM) and the function was expressed in terms of a quadratic polynomial equation. Adequacy of the model equation for optimum response values was tested and optimum conditions of protein recovery were 38.2 mg/mL of protein, ethanol concentration of 40% and precipitation temperature of $-8^{\circ}C$. The experimental value (68.97%) for recovery yield was closed to the predicted value (77.28%) under these conditions.