A genetic recombinant human thrombin is provided. Human thrombin is
efficiently prepared by the genetic engineering technique comprising the
steps: (1) culturing a transfectant animal cell transfected with an
expression vector in which a gene encoding human prethrombin is
incorporated to the downstream of a promoter so as to produce and
accumulate prethrombin in culture supernatant and recovering the produced
human prethrombin; (2) treating a solution containing human prethrombin
recovered in step (1) with ecarin so as to convert human prethrombin into
human thrombin; and (3) purifying the solution obtained after the above
activation process to obtain purified human thrombin. The present
invention allows for provision of human thrombin in a large scale in a
safe and economical manner due to exclusion of blood-derived components.