Ecotin is a serine protease inhibitor that is found in the periplasm of Escherichia coli. It has a very broad range of inhibition including the pancreatic serine proteases trypsin and chymotrypsin, human leukocyte and porcine elastase and rat mast cell chymase. Ecotin is regarded as a potent, tight-binding,...

Functions as a transcriptional regulator binding to DNA sequences in the promoter region of target genes and regulating positively or negatively their expression. Oncogene which plays a role in development, cell proliferation and differentiation. May also play a role in apoptosis through regulation of the JNK and...