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A kit suitable for quantitative array of a wide variety of proteases in biological samples, utilizing FTC-casein as a substrate. Enzyme activities that have been detected with this assay kit include: chymotrypsin, elastase, plasminogen, PRONASE(R) Protease, subtilisin, thermolysin, and trypsin., This Protease Assay Kit is suitable for the quantitative determination of protease activity in biological samples. This kit has been tested for its suitability in detecting a wide variety of proteases, including serine proteases (trypsin, chymotrypsin, thrombin, plasmin, elastase, subtilisin), cysteine proteases (papain, cathepsin B) and acid proteases (thermolysin, pepsin). Each kit provides sufficient reagents for 200 assays. When used as recommended, this kit is ~100-fold more sensitive than either the casein-gel assay or casein A280 assay. The Protease Assay Kit can detect ~10 ng/ml of protease when a 24 h incubation is used. The sensitivity can be enhanced by up to 3-fold by using a fluorometer (excitation 490 nm and emission 525 nm) rather than a spectrophotometer to detect the proteolytic end products.