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Pepsin
Pepsin works in your stomach where the acid is strong. It starts breaking down protein in food right away.
Fun fact
Most proteins fall apart in stomach acid. Pepsin loves it.
Words to know
enzymeproteindigestion
NGSS alignment
MS-LS1-7Food, energy, and growth
Structure
Rendered in FoldLens Junior from AlphaFold Database entry P00790. See the underlying prediction at alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/entry/P00790.
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