Protein Binding Characteristics of the Principal Green Tea Catechins: A QCM Study Comparing Crude Extract to Pure EGCG

Table 1

Isotherms parameters for EGCG and green tea adsorption onto BSA.

		EGCG	Green tea
Langmuir parameters		5.0	7.9
		2.3 × 10^5	3.2 × 10^5
		0.68	0.70
Freundlich parameters		99.5	18.0
	n	3.1	10.3
		0.59	0.12