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the pepsin help the protein to digest and breaks into polypeptides
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 9y agoPepsin helps to chemically digest proteins. It is one of three principal enzymes in the human digestive system, and was the first of the three to be discovered.
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∙ 14y agopepsin's main job it's a digestive enzyme that digests at a low pH level pepsin splits protein molecules into shorter chains of amino acids called peptides
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∙ 12y agoEnzymes are involved in the digestion of all types of foods except, of course, the foods that cannot be digested (like cellulose).
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∙ 12y agoProbably gastric juice.
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∙ 13y agoprotein
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∙ 11y agoProteins
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What enzyme digest protein?
Pepsin
Can you digest starch?
Pepsin does not digest. It breaks down proteins into amino acids. Pepsin cannot break down starch. This is probably because the pH of starch is higher than the optimum pH of Pepsin.
Whould pepsin digest butter?
Yes.
What enzyme start to digest proteins in the stomatch?
Pepsin is produced by stomach cells in its inactive form pepsinogen, Pepsinogen is then activated by the stomach acid into its active form, pepsin. Pepsin breaks down the protein in the food into smaller particles.
What does pepsin do in the digestive system?
It helps to digest proteins.
Does HCI digest protein?
No,a digestive enzyme known as 'Pepsin' digests proteins.But yes,HCl is an acidic medium for 'Pepsin to work.Without HCl,our body cannot digest proteins.
Why does pepsin not digest sucrose?
Sucrose is a type of carbohydrate. Pepsin is a protease, so it can only digest proteins, because enzymes are specific to one kind of molecule. Sucrose would be broken down by a carbohydrase.
Why would you predict the pepsin would not digest starch?
Because Pepsin is the active form of a protein manufactured in the stomach.
Enzyme that digest proteins?
Proteases are enzyme that digest proteins. In stomach we have proteases such as trypsin, pepsin and chymotrypsin that digest proteins. In addition there are peptidases that digest the peptides to simple amino acids.
What does the enzyme pepsin digest?
Pepsin breaks down proteins into peptides and is found in the stomach, its secreted from the gastric glands found in the lining of the stomach.
What chemical in the stomach helps digest protein?
This is the gastric juice, a mixture of hydrochloric acid and pepsin.
Why pepsin is inactive in small intestine?
pepsin and all other digestive enzymes are neutralized by the small intestine
