An Inhibitive Enzyme Assay to Detect Mercury and Zinc Using Protease from Coriandrum sativum

Table 3

IC₅₀ values of Coriandrum sativum proteases for Hg and Zn in comparison to other protease assays.

IC50 (mg/L)
Heavy metals	Coriandrum sativum proteases	Papain^a	Bromelain^b	Trypsin^c	Immobilized Urease^d	15 min Microtox^d	48-hour Daphnia magna ^d
Hg	3.217	0.24–0.62	0.13–0.16	15.76–17.04	0.33	0.029–0.05	0.005–0.21
Zn	0.727	2.11	—	4.8–6.7	14.6	0.27–29	0.54–5.1

aShukor et al. [8].
bShukor et al. [10].
cShukor et al. [11].
dJung et al. [13].