The present study aims to provide new in vitro and in vivo biochemical information about a
novel Kunitz trypsin inhibitor purified from Piptadenia moniliformis seeds. The purification …

Kunitz protease inhibitors (KPIs) are ubiquitous in plants and act as crucial compounds in
defense responses against insect attack and pathogen infection. However, the influence of …

Pithecellobium dumosum is a tree belonging to the Mimosoideae subfamily that presents
various previously characterized Kunitz-type inhibitors. The present study provides a novel …

The current study aims to isolate, purify, and characterize the trypsin inhibitor protein from
seeds of soya beans, scientifically known as Glycine max. Its seeds were ground, and the …

Lectins, proteins which recognize selectively carbohydrates, have been used as affinity
chromatography to purify glycoproteins. Cratylia mollis seed lectin (Cramoll 1, 4), of …

Background: Enzyme kinetics contributes to understanding the structure and function of
insect digestive serine proteases. Kinetic parameters allow to understanding active sites and …

Proteinase inhibitors play an important role in plant resistance of insects and pathogens. In
this study, we characterized the serine proteinase inhibitor SaPIN2b, which is constitutively …

Plant proteinase inhibitors (PIs) have been shown to reduce the growth rates in larvae of
numerous insect species. On the other hand, insects can also regulate their proteinases …

Wounding of plants by chewing insects or other damage induces the synthesis of defensive
proteinase inhibitors (PI) in both wounded and distal unwounded leaves. In the present …

Several and distinct physiological processes in all the life forms are dependent on
proteases, as processing and turnover of endogenous proteins, digestion of food proteins …