The Molecular Weights of Proteins in Phenol

Abstract

I. A large body of evidence has been accumulated in recent years which indicates that proteins have very large molecular weights. The molecular weight of egg albumin, the smallest of the proteins that have been ade-quately studied, is approximately 34,000. This estimate was made by S0rensen14 on the basis of osmotic pressure measurements in which he corrected for the unavoidable influence of inorganic salts, and is entirely ...