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Definition of Trypsin

1. Noun. An enzyme of pancreatic origin; catalyzes the hydrolysis of proteins to smaller polypeptide units.

Definition of Trypsin

1. n. A proteolytic ferment, or enzyme, present in the pancreatic juice. Unlike the pepsin of the gastric juice, it acts in a neutral or alkaline fluid, and not only converts the albuminous matter of the food into soluble peptones, but also, in part, into leucin and tyrosin.

Definition of Trypsin

1. Noun. A digestive enzyme that cleaves peptide bonds (a serine protease). ¹

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Definition of Trypsin

1. an enzyme [n -S] : TRYPTIC [adj] - See also: enzyme

Medical Definition of Trypsin

1. Serine protease from the pancreas of vertebrates. Cleaves peptide bonds involving the amino groups of lysine or arginine. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

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Literary usage of Trypsin

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Text-book of the Physiological Chemistry of the Animal Body: Including an by Arthur Gamgee (1893)
"It has, however, since been shewn" that trypsin can exert its solvent action ... CA Ewald has observed trypsin proteolysis of fibrin* to go on in a liquid ..."

2. A Text-book of the Physiological Chemistry of the Animal Body: Including an by Arthur Gamgee (1893)
"It has, however, since been shewn* that trypsin can exert its solvent action ... CA Ewald has observed trypsin proteolysis of fibrin* to go on in a liquid ..."

3. A Text-book of the Physiological Chemistry of the Animal Body: Including an by Arthur Gamgee (1893)
"It has, however, since been shewn* that trypsin can exert its solvent action ... It appears, however, that digestion of fibrin by trypsin can only go on in ..."

4. The Chemical Constitution of the Proteins by Robert Henry Aders Plimmer (1908)
"I. The Action of trypsin. One of the best proofs that the protein molecule is built up of amino acids coupled together by the methods devised by E. Fischer ..."

5. A Text-book of Human Physiology by Robert Adolph Armand Tigerstedt, John Raymond Murlin (1906)
"trypsin as such does not occur in the pancreas, but instead a zymogen, which, ... But even the secreted juice does not contain any trypsin and is entirely ..."

6. A Text-book of Physiological Chemistry for Students of Medicine and Physicians by Charles Edmund Simon (1907)
"With lipase conditions resemble those in the case of trypsin. ... trypsin.—trypsin is the most important proteolytic ferment which is found in the animal ..."

7. A Text-book of Physiological Chemistry by Olof Hammarsten, Sven Gustaf Hedin (1914)
"The following reports on the action of trypsin applies to the so- called ... The action of trypsin on proteins is best demonstrated by the use of fibrin. ..."

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