erepsin การใช้

• However, it became clear later that erepsin is in fact a complex mixture of different peptidases.
• The term erepsin fell from use in scientific literature in the latter half of the twentieth century as more precise terms are preferred, and may be now considered obsolete.
• Erepsin was originally thought to be a single enzyme or a mixture of a few enzymes involved in the terminal stages of the breakdown of peptides to free amino acids in the intestines.
• Intestinal juice also contains hormones, digestive enzymes, mucus, substances to neutralize hydrochloric acid coming from the stomach and erepsin which further digests polypeptides into amino acids, completing protein digestion.
• He joined the lab of eminent protein chemist Max Bergmann at the Rockefeller Institute in 1940, where he worked with a number of important biochemists and began a significant line of research on the intestinal enzyme erepsin.