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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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This activation of trypsinogen to trypsin is initiated by the cleavage from it of six terminal amino acid residues.
The precursors are called trypsinogen, chymotrypsinogen, proelastase, and procarboxypeptidase.
As trypsinogen is secreted into the duodenum, it is changed into trypsin by enterokinase.
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.
Activation peptide of carboxypeptidase B and anionic trypsinogen as early predictors of the severity of acute pancreatitis.
Examples of important proenzymes include pepsinogen, trypsinogen and chymotrypsinogen, which give rise to the proteolytic digestive enzymes.

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