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Medchemexpress LLC Pepsin | 9001-75-6 | 25 G

Supplier: Medchemexpress LLC 25GHYP1635
Pepsin is the major pig and human gastric protease, also described as a pepsin-like minor gastric proteolytic enzyme. It contributes to the proteolysis of food proteins in the vertebrate stomach.
- Enzyme activity: >3000 U/mg solid
- Optimal pH: 1.0-3.0
- Activators: Hydrochloric acid (HCl), trifluoroacetic acid (TFA)
- Inactivators: pH greater than 6.0
- Solubility: ≥ 2 mg/mL in 0.01 M HCl
- Resuspend in double-distilled water (pH 5.5 or lower) to a final concentration of 1 mg/mL
- Store reconstituted Pepsin at 4 °C for up to 1 month
- Specificity for cleavage at Phe and Leu is best at pH 1.0 and decreased above pH 2.0
- Irreversibly inactivates above pH 6.0
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