Contributors include more than 10, highly qualified scientists and 46 Nobel Prize winners. Related Primary Literature Additional Reading. You may already have access to this content. Sign In. Abstract Exposure of pepsinogen to acid for less than 2 min yields a product with proteolytic activity. Publication types Research Support, U.
You could not be signed in, please check and try again. Sign in with your library card Please enter your library card number. Related Content Related Overviews pepsin zymogen. Show Summary Details Overview pepsinogen. Reference entries pepsinogen in A Dictionary of Biology 6 Length: 38 words. All rights reserved. Hydrochloric acid also converts pepsinogen to the active enzyme pepsin.
Pepsin is a protease, meaning that it cleaves bonds in proteins. It breaks down the proteins in food into individual peptides shorter segments of amino acids. The other enzyme that is active in the stomach is gastric lipase.
This enzyme preferentially cleaves the sn-3 position of triglycerides to produce 1,2-diglyceride and a free fatty acid, as shown below 4. The chyme will then leave the stomach and enter the small intestine via the pyloric sphincter shown below. Brian Lindshield Kansas State University. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing.
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