Mouth, stomach and small intestine
Digestive enzymes
Enzymes that could digest you, boxed up until needed.
0%
this pathway
Net yieldMacromolecules in, monomers out. Every protease shipped as a zymogen
Steps8
Irreversible6 of 6 reactions
The two duodenal hormones
Secretin is nature's antacid; chole-cysto-kinin literally means "gallbladder mover"
Protease specificity
Trypsin cuts after K and R; chymotrypsin after the aromatics W F Y ("wifey")