“…This approach exploits the kinetic mechanism of the target enzyme for bioanity puri®cation applications and is applicable to those enzymes having an ordered sequential mechanisms (McMahon et al, 2001;Mulcahy et al, 1997aMulcahy et al, , 1997bMulcahy et al, , 1999Oakey et al, 1999;OÕCarra et al, 1996;OÕFlaherty et al, 1999aOÕFlaherty et al, , 1999bOÕFlaherty et al, , 1999cTynan et al, 2000). Because one of the primary potential advantages of this approach is that the same bioanity system should be applicable to the same/similar enzyme activity from very dierent sources (because separation is based on biospeci®city as opposed to gross physio- chemical properties), the present study aimed to apply the kinetic locking-on system designed for the eucaryotic NAD + -dependent ADH (YADH, EC 1.1.1.1), to bioanity puri®cation of an NADP + -dependent secondary ADH from the procaryotic obligate anaerobe, Thermoanaerobacter brockii (TBADH, EC 1.1.1.2; Al-Kassim and Tsai, 1990;Bogin et al, 1997;Oestreicher et al, 1996;Pereira et al, 1994). TBADH has been puri®ed using conventional chromatographic methods by several investigators.…”