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    Chymosin /ˈkaɪməsɪn/ or rennin /ˈrɛnɪn/ is a protease found in rennet. It is an aspartic endopeptidase belonging to MEROPS A1 family. It is produced by...
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    of ruminant mammals. Chymosin, its key component, is a protease enzyme that curdles the casein in milk. In addition to chymosin, rennet contains other...
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  • yields lower-quality cheddar. The two key components of natural rennet are chymosin and bovine pepsin. Extracts from plants such as nettles were found to produce...
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    of U.S. hard cheese is made with genetically engineered chymosin. In 1990, FDA granted chymosin "generally recognized as safe" (GRAS) status based on data...
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    (Russian: Российский сыр, romanized: Rossiyskiy syr) is a Russian semi-hard, chymosin cheese produced from pasteurized cows' milk and aged for 2 months. The...
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    applied chymosin is retained in the whey and, at most, may be present in cheese in trace quantities. In ripe cheese, the type and provenance of chymosin used...
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    by the US Food and Drug Administration. In the early 1990s, recombinant chymosin was approved for use in several countries. Cheese had typically been made...
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  • mammalian milk protein involved in several important physiological processes. Chymosin (found in rennet) splits K-casein into an insoluble peptide (para kappa-casein)...
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    can be used in manufacturing of cream cheese to be sold in Canada are chymosin A and B, pepsin, and rennet. In Spain and Mexico, cream cheese is sometimes...
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    pepsinogen and gastric lipase. It is the cell responsible for secretion of chymosin (rennin) in ruminant animals and some other animals. The cell stains basophilic...
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    results in clot formation. When coagulated with chymosin, casein is sometimes called paracasein. Chymosin (EC 3.4.23.4) is an aspartic protease that specifically...
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    var awamori and Escherichia coli K-12 are grown in fermenters to produce chymosin (rennet) on a commercial scale; this rennet, which replaces the conventional...
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    is added to cause the casein to precipitate. Rennet contains the enzyme chymosin which converts κ-casein to para-κ-caseinate (the main component of cheese...
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    pepsinogen (precursor to pepsin), and prorennin (precursor to rennin or chymosin). Prorennin is secreted in young mammals (childhood stage). It is not secreted...
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    do not mind, such ingredients. In the 21st century, 90% of rennet and chymosin used in cheesemaking are derived from industrial fermentation processes...
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    while in vegetarian or kosher cheeses, bacterial, yeast or mould-derived chymosin is used. "Cheddaring" refers to an additional step in the production of...
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  • casein micelle that encapsulates milk protein is cleaved by the enzyme chymosin. The 64 terminal peptides of Kappa-casein are removed by the enzyme to...
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    gill ale and was said to have medicinal properties. Enzymes similar to chymosin in G. hederacea have been used in the cheese-making process as a substitute...
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  • Railways serving long-distance passenger transportation Fermentation-produced chymosin Finite population correction Firearms Policy Coalition, gun rights supporting...
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    and Applications. New York: Springer. p. 177. ISBN 978-0-387-71327-4. "Chymosin – GMO Database". GMO Compass. European Union. 10 July 2010. Archived from...
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    vaccines, supplements such as tryptophan, aid in the production of food (chymosin in cheese making) and fuels. Other applications with genetically engineered...
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    simple sugars, chymosin, which clots milk protein for cheese making, and pectinesterase, which improves fruit juice clarity. Chymosin is an enzyme produced...
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    by the US Food and Drug Administration. In the early 1990s, recombinant chymosin was approved for use in several countries. Cheese had typically been made...
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  • or peptic cell) is a cell in the stomach that releases pepsinogen and chymosin. Pepsinogen is activated into the digestive enzyme pepsin when it comes...
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    Retrieved 2019-01-23. "National Centre for Biotechnology Education | GM Food | Chymosin". archive.fo. 2012-12-23. Archived from the original on 2012-12-23. Retrieved...
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    that actinidain might be a good alternative milk coagulant, replacing chymosin, a common coagulant used in cheese making. Baker EN, Boland MJ, Calder...
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    bacteria include alpha-amylase, which converts starch to simple sugars, chymosin, which clots milk protein for cheese making, and pectinesterase, which...
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  • include a biochemical process with bacterial enzymes similar to rennin and chymosin. This means that the process by which cheese is made (and not the cheese...
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    to pepsin under acidic conditions. BACE1, BACE2 Cathepsin D Cathepsin E Chymosin (or "rennin") Napsin-A Nepenthesin Pepsin Presenilin Renin BACE1; BACE2;...
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  • 1st genetically engineered product for food". 1990-03-24. "Case Studies: Chymosin". Archived from the original on 2016-05-22. Street, 1401 21st; Sacramento...
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