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Where in the body would you find conditions like egg white pepsin and hyrochloric acid?
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∙ 12y ago
you can't find egg white in your body unless you have just eaten an egg
however you can find pepsin and hydrochloric acid in your stomach
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What type of organic molecule are enzymes?
the type of organic molecule an enzyme is would be a protien
Which two enzymes would be active in the stomach?
The small intestine receives the secretion of two glands : liver and pancreas. liver secretes bile and pancreas secrete pancreatic juice which contain pancreatic amylase and trypsin and lipase.
What modifications of conditions would be appropriate if the enzyme were to be used?
Physiological conditions, such as correct pH and heat in which the enzyme is able to function correctly, are required.
What is the function of pepsinogen in the stomach?
Evidence relating to the structure and properties of swine pepsinogen and pepsin has been reviewed and used to suggest a tentative two dimensional picture of the skeleton of these two proteins. When pepsinogen, a folded single peptide chain, is converted to pepsin, there is a profound change in the physical and chemical properties of the protein. In an as yet unknown manner, except that it is initiated by a peptic cleavage of the protein chain, a single enzymic site is formed. This site is made up, quite probably, of the secondary carboxyl group of glutamic acid or of aspartic acid and a tyrosine phenol group in close proximity so that they can form hydrogen or hydrophobic bonds with the substrate in some unique manner that permits hydrolysis to occur at an accelerated rate.
In which scenario would you be most likely to use your sense of touch to recognize the hazard?
Icy road conditions
What effect would decreased incubation temperatures have on pepsin?
Pepsin activity would decrease and at a very low temperature pepsin would be inactive.
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 would most likely happen to pepsin that traveled with the food from the stomach to the small intestines?
the pepsin would become innactive
What would most likely happen to pepsin enzyme that traveled with the food from the stomach to the small intestines?
the pepsin would become innactive
Why would you predict the pepsin would not digest starch?
Because Pepsin is the active form of a protein manufactured in the stomach.
Do you expect that optimal PH for pepsin would be the same as that for rennin?
The optimal pH for pepsin and rennin is about the same, 2.0 and 3.4 respectively. Pepsin is slightly more acidic.
What would happen when the enzyme pepsin that normally acts on protein in the stomach is pushed into the small intestine that has a relatively high pH?
the pepsin would become innactive
Why can pepsin not be produced in its active form?
Pepsin degrades proteins so if it was active it would immediately begin digesting all the proteins in the cell. Therefore it is produced from a precursor known as a zymogen or proenzyme. Pepsin's proenzyme form is pepsinogen which is transformed to the activated pepsin protein.
State where in the digestive system you would find pepsin?
Pepsin is a digestive protease (EC 3.4.23.1) released by the chief cells in the stomach that functions to degrade food proteins into peptides. From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepsin
What is needed to convert pepsinogen to pepsin?
hydrochloric acid produced by parietal cells converts pepsin to pepsinogen
What would happen to the pepsin if you take an antacid auch as alka seltzer?
Antacids have powerful adsorbent and precipitating effect on pepsin, which can lead to its reduction
