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Pepsin A

"Pepsin A" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

Formed from pig pepsinogen by cleavage of one peptide bond. The enzyme is a single polypeptide chain and is inhibited by methyl 2-diaazoacetamidohexanoate. It cleaves peptides preferentially at the carbonyl linkages of phenylalanine or leucine and acts as the principal digestive enzyme of gastric juice.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Pepsin A" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Pepsin A" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 17 publications over 12 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 2010 and 2015 and 2016 and 2021 and 2023
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