Research Article

Laccase Inhibition by Mercury: Kinetics, Inhibition Mechanism, and Preliminary Application in the Spectrophotometric Quantification of Mercury Ions

Table 3

Percent recoveries for the mercury determination in synthetic samples ().

[Hg(II)]0 (ppm)Inhibition (%)[Hg(II)]rec. (ppm)Recovery %

305.4 ± 0.330 ± 2100 ± 3.3
11018.5 ± 0.4106 ± 696.4 ± 5.4
20029.1 ± 1.4160 ± 1480.0 ± 7.0