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Ananya Shree

Class 11th
Biology
2 years ago

How does pepsinogen change into its active form?

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Muskan Anand

2 years ago

Pepsinogen (inactive form) is first changed by HCI into an active enzyme pepsin. Then, through auto catalysis, more of pepsinogen gets activated to pepsin. Thereafter. pepsin hydrolyses the proteins partially to proteoses and peptones.

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