하늘타리박의 뿌리인 괄루근에서 분리 정제한 trypsin inhibitor는 TRTI-1과 TRTI-2 두 종류였으며 gel-filtration과 SDS-PAGE 전기영동에서 얻은 결과로부터 TRTI-1은 $4,000{sim}5,000;Da$의 분자량을 가진 monomer이며 TRTI-2는 $20,000{sim}24,000;Da$의 분자량을 가친 homodimer임을 알 수 있었다. 온도의 안정성에 있어서는 TRTI-1은 $100^{circ}C$에서 2시간 이상 안정하였으며, TRTI-2는 $0{sim}70^{circ}C$의 온도에서는 안정하였으나 $80^{circ}C$에서부터는 안정성이 떨어지면서 $100^{circ}C$에서는 저해능이 완전히 소실되었다. Trypsin 활성에 대해서 TRTI-1, TRTI-2 및 상품화된 soybean BBI의 농도에 따른 저해능을 보면 TRTI-1, TRTI-2 및 soybean BBI의 각각의 농도가 $0.8{mu}M,;6{mu}M,;4{mu}M$일 때 1mg/ml의 trypsin을 50% 저해하였으며, trypsin의 반응속도에 대한 TRTI의 저해 실험에서 TRTI-1와 TRTI-2 모두 trypsin의 가수분해를 경쟁적으로 저해하였으며 $K_{m}$값은 저해제가 없는 경우 $0.37;{mu}M$에 대해 각각 0.97, $0.63;{mu}M$이었다. 여러 protease에 대한 TRTI-1과 TRTI-2의 저해능 실험 결과 elastase, pepsin, Nagarase, papain, thermolysin, chymotrypsin, thrombin 및 collagenase 등은 저해하지 못하였고 trypsin만을 특이하게 저해하였다.
Two different trypsin inhibitors, TRTI-1 and TRTI-2, were purified to near homogenity from Trichosanthes kirilowii root, by $0{sim}90%$ saturated ammonium sulfate salting out, DEAE-Sephacel ion exchange chromatography, Sephadex G-50 gel filtration chromatography and trypsin-affinity chromatography. The molecular weight of TRTI-1 and TRTI-2 were estimated to be about 5,000 Da and 24,000 Da, respectively, by gel filtration and must be monomer and homodimer since they contain 4,000 Da and 10,000 Da each on SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. TRTI-1 was stable after heating for at least 2 hr at $100^{circ}C$ but TRTI-2 was completely inactivated after heating for 10 min at $90^{circ}C$. When Bz-dl-Arg-pNA was used as a substrate of TPCK-treated trypsin, half-maximal inhibitions of TRTI-1 and TRTI-2 were observed at $0.8;{mu}M$ and 6;${mu}M$, repectively. Both TRTI-1 and TRTI-2 inhibited the hydrolysis of trypsin competitively and Km values were $0.97;{mu}M$ and $0.63;{mu}M$, respectively. Both TRTI-1 and TRTI-2 specifically inhibited trypsin but they did not inhibit other proteases tested, chymotrypsin, papain, elastase, collagenase, thermolysin, Nagarase, pepsin, and thrombin.
