what is pepsin and what is the working of it
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Pepsin is a stomach enzyme that serves to digest proteins found in ingested food. Gastric chief cells secrete pepsin as an inactive zymogen called pepsinogen.
Pepsin is a stomach enzyme that serves to digest proteins found in ingested food. Gastric chief cells secrete pepsin as an inactive zymogen called pepsinogen. Parietal cells within the stomach lining secrete hydrochloric acid that lowers the pH of the stomach.
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pepsin is a proteolytic enzymes that is produced by specialised cell in stomach called chief cell.
it is powerful enzymes in gastric juice that digest protein.
the work of pepsin are:
it helps in digestion
it break down the largest polypeptide into smaller peptide fragments.
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