pepsins in English
noun
1
the chief digestive enzyme in the stomach, which breaks down proteins into polypeptides.
Proteins in the stomach are broken down to polypeptides by the enzyme pepsin , which works best in acidic environments and is produced by ‘chief’, or ‘zymogen’, cells in the gastric mucosa.
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