Trypsin inhibitor

Trypsin Inhibitor has been used:

• in the buffer for hepatocyte isolation
• to inhibit trypsin in Corneal epithelial cells
• to inhibit papain activity while treating hippocampal neural stem cells (NSCs)

Egg white trypsin inhibitor is an inhibitor for trypsin, plasmin and plasma kallikrein activity in serum-free cell-culture media. It does not inhibit metallo-, cysteine, and aspartic proteases or tissue kallikrein (serine protease).

Soybean trypsin inhibitor (STI) inhibits myc proto-oncogene protein and is anticarcinogenic. It favors anti-aggregation of platelets and may be a potential protease inhibiting drug. STI inhibits renin and angiotensin.