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    Pepsin /ˈpɛpsɪn/ is an endopeptidase that breaks down proteins into smaller peptides and amino acids. It is one of the main digestive enzymes in the digestive...
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    Schwann cells in the peripheral nervous system, the discovery and study of pepsin, the discovery of the organic nature of yeast, and the invention of the...
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  • Pepsin is an unincorporated community in Newton County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. A post office called Pepsin was established in 1892, and remained...
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    Pepsin A (EC 3.4.23.1, pepsin, lactated pepsin, pepsin fortior, fundus-pepsin, elixir lactate of pepsin, P I, lactated pepsin elixir, P II, pepsin R, pepsin...
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  • protein digestion. Gastric juice mainly contains hydrochloric acid and pepsin. In infants and toddlers, gastric juice also contains rennin to digest milk...
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  • Pepsin B (EC 3.4.23.2, parapepsin I, pig gelatinase) is an enzyme. This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction Degradation of gelatin, with manor...
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    Pepsinogen is then activated by the stomach acid into its active form, pepsin. Pepsin breaks down the protein in the food into smaller particles, such as...
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    suggests that the stomach enzyme pepsin plays a crucial role in the complex mechanism behind LPR. Once present in the larynx pepsin is active at a low pH, but...
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    1961. The beverage's formula initially included sugar and vanilla but not pepsin, despite speculation on the origin of its name. Early on, Pepsi struggled...
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    k_{\text{cat}}/K_{\mathrm {m} }} (M−1s−1) Chymotrypsin 1.5 × 10−2 0.14 9.3 Pepsin 3.0 × 10−4 0.50 1.7 × 103 tRNA synthetase 9.0 × 10−4 7.6 8.4 × 103 Ribonuclease...
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    19th century. It originally contained pepsin, but no longer does. Beeman originally claimed the gum contained pepsin powder that would improve digestion...
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    Pepsin A-5 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PGA5 gene. GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000256713 – Ensembl, May 2017 "Human PubMed Reference:"...
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    Beeman's Pepsin Gum from the American Chicle Company...
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    pepsinogen. Once in the stomach lumen gastric acid activates the proenzyme to pepsin. Gastric acid further inhibits the survival and progress of many pathogens...
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    secrete pepsinogen (this is a precursor to pepsin- the highly acidic environment converts the pepsinogen to pepsin), and neuroendocrine cells that secrete...
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    slow-moving proteinase, erythrocyte membrane aspartic proteinase, SMP, EMAP, non-pepsin proteinase, cathepsin D-like acid proteinase, cathepsin E-like acid proteinase...
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    An antibody digested by pepsin yields two fragments: a F(ab')2 fragment and a pFc' fragment...
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    correlate with the amount of HCl or pepsin in the gastric juice, e.g., intrinsic factor may be present even when pepsin is largely absent. The site of formation...
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  • forms after breaking down of polypeptides by proteases such as gastric pepsin. In addition to proteoses, peptones are also formed at this stage. The difference...
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    monomer into two Fab fragments and an Fc fragment. Conversely, the enzyme pepsin cleaves below the hinge region, so the result instead is a F(ab')2 fragment...
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    Exoenzyme (section Pepsin)
    hydrochloric acid to form pepsin. Once active, pepsin works to break down proteins in foods such as dairy, meat, and eggs. Pepsin works best at the pH of...
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    in milk. In addition to chymosin, rennet contains other enzymes, such as pepsin and a lipase. Rennet has traditionally been used to separate milk into solid...
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    lining from gastric acid secreted by parietal cells in the glands, and from pepsin, a secreted digestive enzyme. Surface mucous cells follow the indentations...
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    digestive enzymes such as pepsin. The low pH also activates the enzyme precursor pepsinogen into the active enzyme pepsin by self-cleavage. After leaving...
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  • digesting proteins in the cells in which they are synthesised. Enzymes like pepsin are created in the form of pepsinogen, an inactive zymogen. Pepsinogen is...
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  • narcotics, alcohol, or pepsin. The use of narcotics and the consumption of alcohol are both prohibited (haram) under Islamic law. Pepsin is created from the...
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    preflagellin have been described. Eukaryotic aspartic proteases include pepsins, cathepsins, and renins. They have a two-domain structure, arising from...
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    circumstances. Enzymes in very low pH environments, like the aspartic protease pepsin in mammalian stomachs, may have catalytic aspartate or glutamate residues...
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  • outside the cell are various enzymes, including digestive enzymes (Trypsin, Pepsin), extracellular proteinases (Matrix metalloproteinases, ADAMTSs, Cathepsins)...
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    Acid-rennet curd differs from acid curd in that during its production, rennet (or pepsin) and starter cultures of lactic acid bacteria are used simultaneously to...
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