Rhizopuspepsin (, ''Rhizopus aspartic proteinase'', ''neurase'', ''Rhizopus acid protease'', ''Rhizopus acid proteinase'') is an
enzyme.
This enzyme
catalyses the following
chemical reaction
:
Hydrolysis of proteins with broad specificity similar to that of
pepsin A
Pepsin A (, ''pepsin'', ''lactated pepsin'', ''pepsin fortior'', ''fundus-pepsin'', ''elixir lactate of pepsin'', ''P I'', ''lactated pepsin elixir'', ''P II'', ''pepsin R'', ''pepsin D'') is an enzyme. This enzyme catalyses the following chemical ...
, preferring
hydrophobic residues at P1 and P1'. Clots milk and activates
trypsinogen.
From the
zygomycete fungus ''
Rhizopus chinensis''. A similar endopeptidase is found in R. niveus
In peptidase family A1 (pepsin A family).
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