Pepsin
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Digestive
- Gastrin
- Pepsin
- Amylase
- Lipase
- Trypsin
- CCK
- Secretin
- GI System
- Ingestion
- Liver
- Bile
- Exocrine Pancreas
- Endocrine Pancreas
- Small Intestine
- Large Intestine
- GI Nervous Control
- Pepsin
- The main digestive enzyme produced in the stomach
- Specific enzyme in a wider class of protein-degrading enzymes, called proteolytic enzymes/proteases/peptidases
- Secreted by chief cells in the stomach as the precursor pepsinogen
- Activated by HCl (gastric acid)
- Catalyzes the breakdown of proteins by hydrolyzing peptide bonds
- The main digestive enzyme produced in the stomach