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How do you xxplain what pepsin is?

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∙ 11y ago
Updated: 8/21/2019

Pepsin is a digestive enzyme in the stomach, breaking down proteins into polypeptides.

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No, pepsin is not the substrate in the experiment with BAPNA. BAPNA is the synthetic substrate used in this experiment to test the activity of the enzyme pepsin by measuring the rate of substrate cleavage. Pepsin acts on BAPNA as the enzyme, not the substrate.


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