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Mainly, the enzyme Protease breaks up proteins into amino-acids. Also, proteins contain nitrogen which the body cannot use. Water is required to remove this nitrogen, bonding with if to form ammonia. This is subsequently secreted in urine.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 14y agoIn the stomach their needs to be an acidic environment in order for protein to be digested. Pepsin is an enzyme that breaks down protein molecules in food into short chains of amino acids. Pepsin works best in an acidic environment.
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∙ 9y agoYou will need to have the acids in the stomach to do this. They help to break apart the protein for digestion.
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∙ 14y agoThe gastric enzyme pepsin, which is released by the stomach, digests protein.
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What organelles produce proteins in the cell?
Ribosomes produce the proteins needed in a cell
What is the gene that codes for an enzyme needed by the proteins?
i am from russia. every russian scientist knows that the gene that codes for an enzyme needed by the proteins is mitochondrion and ribosomes.
Enzyme complexes that break down protein are called?
Proteases are enzymes that degrade/digest proteins
Is nitrogen needed to make proteins in plants?
Yes, it is.
What type of protein is casein?
Casein is a specific type of Phosphoprotein. Casein is unique because it is one of the slowest proteins to digest and is considered a good compliment to other quickly digesting proteins such as Whey Protein.
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.
Does carboxypeptidase digest proteins?
Yes.
What is protease AM?
helps digest proteins
How do proteins help in digestion?
Proteins need an acid environmet to digest.
What Gastric juice digest proteins?
There are two things in gastric juices, Pepsin and hydrochloric acid. If one is alone, it would not do any digestion of proteins. But together, they can digest proteins.
What is the most difficult food to digest?
Proteins
Which gastric enzymes digest proteins?
weed
What do complex carbohydrates and proteins have in common?
slow to digest
What does pepsin do in the digestive system?
It helps to digest proteins.
What does pepsine help to digest?
proteins into amino acids
What secretes enzymes that digest carbohydrates proteins lipids and nucleic acids?
Proteins are digested by proteases and cabohydratases digest carbohydrase (amylase, galactosidase, cellulase etc.)
What do proteins digest?
Proteins that carry out enzymatic activity are known as enzymes. Enzymes can catalyze the conversion of substrate into the product. In digestion hydrolytic enzymes such as proteases, lipases, glycosidases such as amylase digest proteins, lipases, and carbohydrates respectively.
