“…In the re®ned structures of complex between bovine pancreatic trypsin inhibitor (BPTI) and bovine pancreatic trypsin (BPT), the scissile peptide bond remains nearly intact, with a slight out-of-plane deformation of the carbonyl oxygen atom being observed (Bode & Huber, 1992). However, the absence of a large up®eld shift in the 13 C of the P1 residue of STI upon complex formation suggested that the STI:PPT complex is not a covalent, fully tetrahedral adduct (Baillargeon et al, 1980). More recently, no out-of-plane distortion around the inhibitor's scissile peptide bond was observed in the re®ned structure of the complex between porcine b-trypsin and MCTI-A, a trypsin inhibitor from the squash family (Huang et al, 1993).…”