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Why is pepsin secreted as an inactive precursor called pepsinogen?
To avoid damaging to unintended structures
What is the inactive from of the enzyme pepsin?
The inactive form of pepsin is called pepsinogen.
What is the gastric enzyme that acts on proteins?
The proteolytic or protein eating enzyme of the stomach is called pepsin. Pepsin is secreted into the stomach as a zymogen (or inactive enzyme precursor) called pepsinogen which is converted into the active enzyme form by the hydrochloric acid and low pH in the gastric juices.
What is the difference between pepsin and pepsinogen?
Pepsin is a powerful protein digesting enzyme which is far too dangerous in its active form so it is released in an inactive pepsinogen form by the cell and activated only in the digestive tract where it is required to be active.
Is pepsin a polypeptide?
Pepsinogen is the proenzyme of pepsin. Pepsinogen is inactive, it is metabolized into the enzyme pepsin which break down proteins into small molecules.
What effect would decreased incubation temperatures have on pepsin?
Pepsin activity would decrease and at a very low temperature pepsin would be inactive.
What is the functiom of pepsinogen?
Pepsinogen is the precursor for Pepsin, an enzyme for the degradation of protein.
What effect would decrease incubation temperature have on pepsin activity?
Pepsin activity would decrease and at a very low temperature pepsin would be inactive.
What effect would decreased incubation temperature have on pepsin activity and why?
Pepsin activity would decrease. At a very low temperature pepsin would be inactive.
What are the enzymes produced in the stomach?
The main enzyme in the Stomach is Pepsin which is used to digest protein. Only protein digestion occurs in the stomach and almostt no absorption, (only a little alcohol). This protein is not secreted as its active form (ie not as pepsin) but as the Zymogen (the inactive precursor to proteins) Pepsinogen which cleaves in a low pH to form the active enzyme.
In the stomach the protein is digested by?
That is a proteolytic enzyme. Name of the enzyme is pepsin. It is secreted as inactive pepsinogen, which become active when it comes in contact with the hydrochloric acid, in the stomach.
What structure prduces the enzyme pepsin?
Pepsinogen is secreted by cells, witch is inactive, else cells made up of proteins would have got digested themselves. This inactive pepsinogen get converted to active pepsin after coming in contact with acid in stomach.
