Fig. 1

a Effect of sweet potato trypsin inhibitors (SPTIs) on 0.1 mM Cu2+-mediated low-density lipoprotein (LDL) oxidation during 24-h reactions evaluated by TBARS methods, and b during Cu2+-mediated LDL oxidation, effects of SPTIs on LDL or oxLDL binding were evaluated by protein stains in native PAGE gels with two layers of separation gels. The selected square frame was quantified by a Syngene G:bBOX imaging system (Syngene, UK). Values were presented as mean ± SD and were analyzed using one-way ANOVA, followed by a post hoc Tukey’s test for multiple comparisons. The different marked symbols (LDL only, lowercase; LDL/SPTIs model, uppercase) in each bar were significantly different (P < 0.05)