in which medium pepsin and trypsin are active?
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Acidic and alkaline medium respectively
Explanation:
- Pepsin is situated in gastric glands, it acts only in acidic medium, it hydrolyses proteins into proteases and peptones.
- Pepsinogen is converted into pepsin in presence of hydrochloric acid.
- Trypsin is present in pancreas, it works or acts in alkaline medium(pH8) it converts partially digested proteins in the stomach and converts them into dipeptides.
- Trypsin works along with chymotrypsin and carboxypeptidase.
- Enterokinase converts trypsinogen into trypsin.
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