noun

• A digestive enzyme which breaks down proteins in the small intestine, secreted by the pancreas as trypsinogen.

  ‘Many people take extra doses of naturally produced enzymes, such as lactase, pepsin and trypsin, in supplement form.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘When the two loops in trypsin were changed into chymotrypsin loops, the hybrid protein shows chymotrypsin-like cooperatvity.’
  • ‘We found that both trypsin and elastase digestion eliminated counterbend formation.’
  • ‘Selected cases were also examined with immunohistochemical stains for lipase, trypsin, and amylase.’
  • ‘They then added the enzyme trypsin to carve up the remaining proteins into small, but still recognizable fragments, or peptides.’