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We cannot detect any thrombin in our prep, but our level of sensitivity is not exquisite – we look on an overloaded gel, so we probably would see anything over 1%. The activity of factor Xa on thrombin substrates masks any signal in a proteolytic assay for thrombin (both enzymes cleave after arginine).
