Leupeptin Hemisulfate

Catalog No.S7380 Batch:S738016

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Technical Data

Formula

C20H38N6O4.1/2H2SO4
Molecular Weight 475.59 CAS No. 103476-89-7
Solubility (25°C)* In vitro DMSO 95 mg/mL (199.75 mM)
Water 95 mg/mL (199.75 mM)
Ethanol 95 mg/mL (199.75 mM)
* <1 mg/ml means slightly soluble or insoluble.
* Please note that Selleck tests the solubility of all compounds in-house, and the actual solubility may differ slightly from published values. This is normal and is due to slight batch-to-batch variations.
* Room temperature shipping (Stability testing shows this product can be shipped without any cooling measures.)

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Biological Activity

Description Leupeptin Hemisulfate is a reversible inhibitor of serine and cysteine proteases. It inhibits cathepsin B (Ki = 6 nM), calpain (Ki = 10 nM), trypsin (Ki = 35 nM), plasmin (Ki = 3.4 μM), and kallikrein (Ki = 19 μM), and has no effect against chymotrypsin, elastase, renin, or pepsin.
Targets
Cysteine protease [1] serine protease [1]
In vitro

Leupeptin, produced by various species of actinomycetes, strongly inhibit proteolysis. [1]

Leupeptin hemisulfate protects tubulin from endogenous proteolytic activities during the isolation procedure and results in increased tubulin purity. [2]

Leupeptin hemisulfate could restore up to 50% of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) expression in cell suspension cultures. [3]

Protocol (from reference)

Animal Study:

[4]
  • Animal Models

    C57BL/6NCrl male mice

  • Dosages

    20 mg/kg

  • Administration

    i.p.

Selleck's Leupeptin Hemisulfate has been cited by 34 publications

FOXS1, frequently inactivated by promoter methylation, inhibited colorectal cancer cell growth by promoting TGFBI degradation through autophagy-lysosome pathway [ J Adv Res, 2025, S2090-1232(25)00056-6] PubMed: 39864590
Targeting deubiquitinase USP7-mediated stabilization of XPO1 contributes to the anti-myeloma effects of selinexor [ J Transl Med, 2025, 23(1):62] PubMed: 39806439
Hepatic Lamp2a deficiency promotes inflammation of murine autoimmune cholangitis via affecting bile acid metabolism [ iScience, 2025, 28(2):111804] PubMed: 39995863
Bafilomycin A1 induces colon cancer cell death through impairment of the endolysosome system dependent on iron [ Sci Rep, 2025, 15(1):5148] PubMed: 39934167
ARIH1 activates STING-mediated T-cell activation and sensitizes tumors to immune checkpoint blockade [ Nat Commun, 2023, 14(1):4066] PubMed: 37429863
Nuciferine protects against high-fat diet-induced hepatic steatosis and insulin resistance via activating TFEB-mediated autophagy-lysosomal pathway [ Acta Pharm Sin B, 2022, 12(6):2869-2886] PubMed: 35755273
18F-FDG PET as an imaging biomarker for the response to FGFR-targeted therapy of cancer cells via FGFR-initiated mTOR/HK2 axis [ Theranostics, 2022, 12(14):6395-6408] PubMed: 36168616
CLP36 promotes p53 deficient sarcoma progression through suppression of atrophin-1 interacting protein-4 (AIP-4)-dependent degradation of YAP1 [ Theranostics, 2022, 12(11):5051-5068] PubMed: 35836803
Histone deacetylase 3 contributes to the antiviral innate immunity of macrophages by interacting with FOXK1 to regulate STAT1/2 transcription [ Cell Rep, 2022, 38(4):110302] PubMed: 35081346
Histone deacetylase 3 facilitates TNFα-mediated NF-κB activation through suppressing CTSB induced RIP1 degradation and is required for host defense against bacterial infection [ Cell Biosci, 2022, 12(1):81] PubMed: 35658939

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