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In molecular biology ecotin is a protease inhibitor which belongs to MEROPS inhibitor family I11 clan IN. Ecotins are dimeric periplasmic proteins from Escherichia coli and related Gram-negative bacteria that have been shown to be potent inhibitors of many trypsin-fold serine proteases of widely varying substrate specificity which belong to MEROPS peptidase family S1. Phylogenetic analysis suggested that ecotin has an exogenous target possibly neutrophil elastase. Ecotin from E.
