Cellular agriculture and regenerative medicine strive to replace animal-derived products in their processes as much as possible. In these efforts dissociation enzymes required for cell detachment from their substrate are often overlooked. Cell detachment is an essential part of subculturing and to date it is achieved using either animal pancreas-derived trypsin or expensive recombinant enzymes. We found that nattokinase, a fermentation product of Bacillus subtilis subsp. Natto, can be effectively applied for the detachment of bovine myoblasts, mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) and human embryonic cell line (H9).

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