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Q: What is the name of the inactive form of a protein splitting enzyme in the stomach?
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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.


Which digestive organs produces pepsin?

Pepsin is an enzyme in the stomach that begins the digestion of proteins by splitting them into smaller pieces. It is a gastric protease; pepsin is secreted in an inactive form, pepsinogen, which is activated by stomach acid. enzyme produced in the mucosal lining of the stomach that acts to degrade protein.


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.


Which protein complex in the electron transport chain after photosystem 2 produces ATP?

the water-splitting enzyme


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.


What is the protein splitting enzyme found in pancreatic juice?

trypsin


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.


Is pepsin a peptidase?

No. Pepsin is an enzyme that breaks down protein to peptides. Peptidase is another enzyme that breaks down peptides to amino acid. http://www.answers.com/topic/pepsin http://www.answers.com/topic/peptidase


Is stomach acid an enzyme?

Stomach acid, or hydrochloric acid (HCl), is not an enzyme, because stomach acid is neither a protein nor a catalyst.


Hydrochloric acid must be present for the formation of a protein-splitting enzyme called?

pepsin


Pepsinogen is the precursor to the gastric enzyme for protein digestion and is secreted by the parietal cells?

it is secreted by stomach glands as an inactive proenzyme, pepsinogen, which is converted to pepsin by the cleavage of acid-labile linkages in the acidic (low pH) environment of the stomach.


An allosteric enzyme made up of protein subunits alternates between active and inactive forms?

true