Description
Aprotinin is a competitive serine protease inhibitor that inhibits trypsin,chymotrypsin,kallikrein and plasmin.Aprotinin forms stable complexes with and blocks the active sites of enzymes. Binding is reversible with most aprotinin,protease complexes and dissociating at pH >10 or <3. Effective concentration is equimolar with protease.Recombinant aprotinin is expressed in E. Coli, and purified with HPLC. It contains no animal-derived components. This is a recombinant form of bovine lung aprotinin, which is traditionally isolated from bovine lung by methods involving fractional precipitation, gel filtration, and ion exchange chromatography. UNIT DEFINITION:A conversion factor for Aprotinin is: 1 EPU = 1 USP Aprotinin Unit = 1800 KIU