what is pancreatic amylase?
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The pancreas and salivary gland make amylase (alpha amylase) to hydrolyse dietary starch into disaccharides and trisaccharides which are converted by other enzymes to glucose to supply the body with energy. ... All amylases are glycoside hydrolases and act on α-1,4-glycosidic bonds.
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Pancreatic amylase is the main enzyme for luminal digestion of carbohydrate in the small intestine. Human pancreatic α-amylase is synthesized as a protein of 57 KDa for which the cDNA predicts a protein of 512 amino acids . This includes a signal sequence; amylase isolated from human pancreatic juice has 496 amino acids .
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