Download or read book Biology of Serpins written by James Whisstock and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2011-07-18 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Serpins are a group of proteins with similar structures that were first identified as a set of proteins able to inhibit proteases. The acronym serpin was originally coined because many serpins inhibit chymotrypsin-like serine proteases. This volume of Methods in Ezymology is split into 2 parts and comprehensively covers the subject.