Product Name: Pepsin
Synonyms: Pepsin A

CAS No.: 9001-75-6

EINECS: 232-629-3

Description:

The definition of pepsin is a digestive enzyme in the stomach that breaks down proteins into smaller units called polypeptides (or peptides for short). This enzyme helps digest proteins — such as those found in meat, eggs, dairy products, nuts and seeds — by breaking bonds that link amino acids. Amino acids are described as “the building blocks of proteins.”

Pepsin is an enzyme made by the stomach. It also functions in the stomach. This enzyme is created when stomach acid changes a protein called pepsinogen into pepsin. Pepsinogen is inactive, but it is converted to the active enzyme pepsin by the action of hydrochloric acid.

Pepsin can be found in gastric juices that are acidic and needed to properly metabolize the foods we eat. Glands in the mucous-membrane lining of the stomach, called peptic chief cells, are responsible for making pepsinogen. This happens after they are stimulated by the vagus nerve and hormonal secretions of gastrin and secretin. Pepsinogen mixes with hydrochloric acid and is then converted to the active enzyme pepsin.

Benefits and Uses

1) Indigestion

2) Autism

3) Chronic Gastritis

4) Low Stomach Acid

5) Bacterial Infections

6) Diagnosing Stomach Cancer

7) As a Reflux Marker

8) In Industry and Labs