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Chymotrypsin

A digestive enzyme of pancreatic juice and a serine protease: the pancreas makes it as an inactive precursor, chymotrypsinogen, which trypsin activates in the gut, and it cuts proteins next to bulky amino acids such as phenylalanine, tyrosine and tryptophan. This family brings together the active ingredient.

Did you know?Its structure is regarded as the archetype of a whole superfamily of proteases; in the past the enzyme was also used in eye surgery, during cataract operations.