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What is a trypsinogen?

What is a trypsinogen? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (biochemistry) An inactive precursor of trypsin
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Bayliss went on to demonstrate how the enzyme trypsin was formed from inactive trypsinogen in the small intestine and to measure precisely the time required for a trypsin solution to digest specific quantities of protein.
Mesotrypsinogen comprises a minor portion of the total trypsinogen protein in the pancreas.
Hereditary pancreatitis is caused by a mutation in the cationic trypsinogen gene that is inherited in an autosomal dominant pattern.
Enterokinase, also called Enteropeptidase, proteolytic enzyme, secreted from the duodenal mucosa, that changes the inactive pancreatic secretion trypsinogen into trypsin, one of the enzymes that digest proteins.
Hereditary pancreatitis is caused by a mutation in the cationic trypsinogen gene.
This activation of trypsinogen to trypsin is initiated by the cleavage from it of six terminal amino acid residues.

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