Chemically modified trypsin is a standard reagent in proteomics experiments but is usually not considered in database searches. Modification of trypsin is supposed to protect the protease against autolysis and the resulting loss of activity. Here, we show that modified trypsin is still subject to self-digestion, and, as a result, modified trypsin-derived peptides are present in standard digests...

Trypsin inhibitor was purified from the hepatopancreas of squid (Todarodes pacificus). The final inhibitor preparation was nearly homogeneous by SDS-PAGE with an estimated molecular weight of approximately 6300. The squid trypsin inhibitor was acid- and heat-stable, and active against trypsins from the pyloric ceca of starfish (Asterias amurensis) and saury (Cololabis saira) and porcine pancrea...

Protein food modulates the activity of proteases of the midgut gland of Penaeus vannamei. Shrimp fed with food containing 15, 30 and 50% protein exhibited differences in trypsin and chymotrypsin activity and trypsin mRNA levels. Shrimp fed with 30% protein showed higher trypsin and chymotrypsin activities than those fed 15 or 50% protein. An additional paralogue trypsin was observed with electr...

Active site serine 195 of rat anionic trypsin was replaced with a cysteine by site-specific mutagenesis in order to determine if a thiol group could function as the catalytic nucleophile in serine protease active site environment. Two genetically modified rat thiol trypsins were generated; the first variant contained a single substitution of Ser195 with Cys (trypsin S195C) while the second vari...

It has previously been demonstrated that the insulin-mimetic agent trypsin stimulates autophosphorylation of purified insulin receptors and activates the insulin receptor tyrosine kinase in vitro. We now report the effects of trypsin on whole cell tyrosine kinase activation and insulin receptor autophosphorylation. Trypsin treatment of intact adipocytes produces a time-dependent stimulation of ...

Animal-derived xenogeneic biomaterials utilized in different surgeries are promising for various applications tissue engineering. However, decellularization is necessary to attain a bioactive extracellular matrix (ECM) that can be safely transplanted. The main objective of the present study assess structural integrity, biocompatibility, and potential use acellular engineering applications. Henc...

With this method it was shown that the covalent binding of trypsin to CNBr-activated Sephadex stabilized the protein against the denaturing effect of concentrated urea solutions, in contradistinction to the similar agarose-bound trypsin, which behaved as the free trypsin. This agrees with activity measurements (Gabel et al., 1970), the latter derivative being inactive in 8M-urea, as is the free...

Acute pancreatitis is a life-threatening inflammatory disease characterized by abdominal pain of unknown etiology. Trypsin, a key mediator of pancreatitis, causes inflammation and pain by activating protease-activated receptor 2 (PAR(2)), but the isoforms of trypsin that cause pancreatitis and pancreatic pain are unknown. We hypothesized that human trypsin IV and rat P23, which activate PAR(2) ...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this work was to assess the costs of 4 neonatal screening strategies for cystic fibrosis in relation to health effects. In each strategy, the first test was the measurement of serum concentration of immunoreactive trypsin. The second step consisted of either a second immunoreactive trypsin test (strategy 1) or a multiple mutation analysis (strategy 2). In strategies 3 ...