Trypsin. Properties and Use in the Production of Biological Medicinal Products

Abstract

The production of biological medicinal products used for prophylactic, diagnostic and therapeutic purposes includes the use of inherently variable biological processes and materials. In order to ensure the quality of the finished biological product it is necessary to determine the source, nature and fitness for use of the starting materials, including reagents, culture media, buffer solutions, sera, and enzymes. The article summarises literature data on the structure, properties and mode of action of the animal-derived reagent trypsin — proteolytic enzyme widely used in the production of biological medicinal products. The article dwells upon the sources of trypsin, methods of its production, requirements for trypsin products of different purity grades intended for human and veterinary use as well as for use as reagents in the production of vaccines, advanced therapy medicinal products and genetically engineered products. The article describes the role that trypsin plays in the human and animal intestinal digestive enzyme systems, in dissociation of cells in cultures in the process of cell passaging, in the mechanism of proteolitic activation and inactivation of a wide range of viruses, and in the examination of proteins primary structure.

Keywords

• trypsin
• biological medicinal products
• cell culture
• virus activation
• vaccine production