Trypsin (EC 3.4.21.4) is a pancreatic serine protease, which hydrolyzes peptide bonds specifically at the carboxyl side of arginine and lysine residues. The rate of hydrolysis is slower if an acidic residue is on either side of the cleavage site and cleavage may not occur if a proline residue is on the carboxyl side. Tryptic digestion of the protein of interest results in a highly specific cleavage and a limited number of peptide fragments.
Storage: -20C