Trypsin inhibitor

Trypsin inhibitor

Trypsin inhibitors are chemicals that reduce the availability of trypsin, an enzyme essential to nutrition of many animals, including humans.

There are four commercial sources of trypsin inhibitors.

See also

* Serine protease inhibitor
* Protease inhibitor

References

* Jones et al., Biochem., 2, 66, (1963)
* Lineweaver and Murray JBC, 171, 565 (1947)
* Kunitz and Northrop J. Gen. Physiol., 19, 991 (1936)
* Fraenkel-Conrat, et al., Arch. Biochem. Biophys., 37, 393 (1952)
* Frattali, V., and Steiner, R.: Biochem., 7, 521 (1968)

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