Trypsin

Trypsin lives in your small intestine. It snips proteins from food into smaller chunks your gut can use.

Fun fact

Trypsin only cuts after two letters in a protein chain — lysine and arginine.

Words to know

enzyme
protein
digestion

NGSS alignment

MS-LS1-7Food, energy, and growth

Structure

Rendered in FoldLens Junior from AlphaFold Database entry P07477. See the underlying prediction at alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/entry/P07477.

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