Trypsin - wikipedia Trypsin trypsin Identifiers EC number 3.4. 21.4 CAS number 9002 - 07 - 7 Databases IntEnz IntEnz view BRENDA BRENDA entry ExPASy NiceZyme view KEGG KEGG entry MetaCyc metabolic pathway PRIAM profile PDB structures RCSB PDB PDBe PDBsum Gene Ontology AmiGO / QuickGO show Search PMC articles PubMed articles NCBI proteins Trypsin Crystal structure of bovine trypsin. Identifiers Symbol Trypsin Pfam PF00089 InterPro IPR001254 SMART SM00020 PROSITE PDOC00124 MEROPS S1 SCOP 1c2g SUPERFAMILY 1c2g CDD cd00190 show Available protein structures : Pfam structures PDB RCSB PDB ; PDBe ; PDBj PDBsum structure summary Trypsin ( EC 3.4. 21.4 ) is a serine protease from the PA clan superfamily, found in the digestive system of many vertebrates, where it hydrolyzes proteins. Trypsin is formed in the small intestine when its proenzyme form, the trypsinogen produced by the pancreas, is activated. Trypsin cleaves peptide chains mainly at the carboxyl side of the amino acids lysine or arginine, except when either is followed by proline. It is used for numerous biotechnological processes. The process is commonly referred to as trypsin proteolysis or trypsinisation, and proteins that have been digested / treated with trypsin are said to have been trypsinized. Trypsin was discovered in 1876 by Wilhelm Kühne. Contents 1 Function 2 Mechanism 3 Properties 4 Isozymes 5 Clinical significance 6 Applications 6.1 In food 7 Trypsin inhibitor 8 References 9 External links Function In the duodenum, trypsin catalyzes the hydrolysis of peptide bonds, breaking down proteins into smaller peptides. The peptide products are then further hydrolyzed into amino acids via other proteases, rendering them available for absorption into the blood stream. Tryptic digestion is a necessary step in protein absorption, as proteins are generally too large to be absorbed through the lining of the small intestine. Trypsin is produced as the inactive zymogen trypsinogen in the pancreas. When the pancreas is stimulated by cholecystokinin, it is then secreted into the first part of the small intestine ( the duodenum ) via the pancreatic duct. Once in the small intestine, the enzyme enteropeptidase activates trypsinogen into trypsin by proteolytic cleavage. Autocatalysis does not happen with trypsin, as trypsinogen is a poor substrate, therefore enzymatic damage to the pancreas is avoided. Mechanism The enzymatic mechanism is similar to that of other serine proteases. These enzymes contain a catalytic triad consisting of histidine - 57, aspartate - 102, and serine - 195. This catalytic triad was formerly called a charge relay system, implying the abstraction of protons from serine to histidine and from histidine to aspartate, but owing to evidence provided by NMR that the resultant alkoxide form of serine would have a much stronger pull on the proton than does the imidazole ring of histidine, current thinking holds instead that serine and histidine each have effectively equal share of the proton, forming short low - barrier hydrogen bonds therewith. By these means, the nucleophilicity of the active site serine is increased, facilitating its attack on the amide carbon during proteolysis. The enzymatic reaction that trypsin catalyzes is thermodynamically favorable, but requires significant activation energy ( it is `` kinetically unfavorable '' ). In addition, trypsin contains an `` oxyanion hole '' formed by the backbone amide hydrogen atoms of Gly - 193 and Ser - 195, which through hydrogen bonding stabilize the negative charge which accumulates on the amide oxygen after nucleophilic attack on the planar amide carbon by the serine oxygen causes that carbon to assume a tetrahedral geometry. Such stabilisation of this tetrahedral intermediate helps to reduce the energy barrier of its formation and is concomitant with a lowering of the free energy of the transition state. Preferential binding of the transition state is a key feature of enzyme chemistry. The aspartate residue ( Asp 189 ) located in the catalytic pocket ( S1 ) of trypsin is responsible for attracting and stabilizing positively charged lysine and / or arginine, and is, thus, responsible for the specificity of the enzyme. This means that trypsin predominantly cleaves proteins at the carboxyl side ( or `` C - terminal side '' ) of the amino acids lysine and arginine except when either is bound to a C - terminal proline, although large - scale mass spectrometry data suggest cleavage occurs even with proline. Trypsin is considered an endopeptidase, i.e., the cleavage occurs within the polypeptide chain rather than at the terminal amino acids located at the ends of polypeptides. Properties Human trypsin has an optimal operating temperature of about 37 ° C. In contrast, the Atlantic cod has several types of trypsins for the poikilotherm fish to survive at different body temperatures. Cod trypsins include trypsin I with an activity range of 4 to 65 ° C ( 40 to 150 ° F ) and maximal activity at 55 ° C ( 130 ° F ), as well as trypsin Y with a range of 2 to 30 ° C ( 36 to 86 ° F ) and a maximal activity at 21 ° C ( 70 ° F ). As a protein, trypsin has various molecular weights depending on the source. For example, a molecular weight of 23.3 kDa is reported for trypsin from bovine and porcine sources. The activity of trypsin is not affected by the enzyme inhibitor tosyl phenylalanyl chloromethyl ketone, TPCK, which deactivates chymotrypsin. This is important because, in some applications, like mass spectrometry, the specificity of cleavage is important. Trypsin should be stored at very cold temperatures ( between − 20 and − 80 ° C ) to prevent autolysis, which may also be impeded by storage of trypsin at pH 3 or by using trypsin modified by reductive methylation. When the pH is adjusted back to pH 8, activity returns. Isozymes These human genes encode proteins with trypsin enzymatic activity : protease, serine, 1 ( trypsin 1 ) Identifiers Symbol PRSS1 Alt. symbols TRY1 Entrez 5644 HUGO 9475 OMIM 276000 RefSeq NM_002769 UniProt P07477 Other data EC number 3.4. 21.4 Locus Chr. 7 q32 - qter protease, serine, 2 ( trypsin 2 ) Identifiers Symbol PRSS2 Alt. symbols TRYP2 Entrez 5645 HUGO 9483 OMIM 601564 RefSeq NM_002770 UniProt P07478 Other data EC number 3.4. 21.4 Locus Chr. 7 q35 protease, serine, 3 ( mesotrypsin ) Identifiers Symbol PRSS3 Alt. symbols PRSS4 Entrez 5646 HUGO 9486 OMIM 613578 RefSeq NM_002771 UniProt P35030 Other data EC number 3.4. 21.4 Locus Chr. 9 p13 Other isoforms of trypsin may also be found in other organisms. Clinical significance Activation of trypsin from proteolytic cleavage of trypsinogen in the pancreas can lead to a series of events that cause pancreatic self - digestion, resulting in pancreatitis. One consequence of the autosomal recessive disease cystic fibrosis is a deficiency in transport of trypsin and other digestive enzymes from the pancreas. This leads to the disorder termed meconium ileus, which involves intestinal obstruction ( ileus ) due to overly thick meconium, which is normally broken down by trypsin and other proteases, then passed in feces. Applications Trypsin is available in high quantity in pancreases, and can be purified rather easily. Hence, it has been used widely in various biotechnological processes. In a tissue culture lab, trypsin is used to resuspend cells adherent to the cell culture dish wall during the process of harvesting cells. Some cell types adhere to the sides and bottom of a dish when cultivated in vitro. Trypsin is used to cleave proteins holding the cultured cells to the dish, so that the cells can be removed from the plates. Trypsin can also be used to dissociate dissected cells ( for example, prior to cell fixing and sorting ). Trypsin can be used to break down casein in breast milk. If trypsin is added to a solution of milk powder, the breakdown of casein causes the milk to become translucent. The rate of reaction can be measured by using the amount of time needed for the milk to turn translucent. Trypsin is commonly used in biological research during proteomics experiments to digest proteins into peptides for mass spectrometry analysis, e.g. in - gel digestion. Trypsin is particularly suited for this, since it has a very well defined specificity, as it hydrolyzes only the peptide bonds in which the carbonyl group is contributed either by an arginine or lysine residue. Trypsin can also be used to dissolve blood clots in its microbial form and treat inflammation in its pancreatic form. In food Commercial protease preparations usually consist of a mixture of various protease enzymes that often includes trypsin. These preparations are widely used in food processing : as a baking enzyme to improve the workability of dough in the extraction of seasonings and flavorings from vegetable or animal proteins and in the manufacture of sauces to control aroma formation in cheese and milk products to improve the texture of fish products to tenderize meat during cold stabilization of beer in the production of hypoallergenic food where proteases break down specific allergenic proteins into nonallergenic peptides, for example, proteases are used to produce hypoallergenic baby food from cow 's milk, thereby diminishing the risk of babies developing milk allergies. Trypsin inhibitor Main article : Trypsin inhibitor To prevent the action of active trypsin in the pancreas, which can be highly damaging, inhibitors such as BPTI and SPINK1 in the pancreas and α1 - antitrypsin in the serum are present as part of the defense against its inappropriate activation. Any trypsin prematurely formed from the inactive trypsinogen is then bound by the inhibitor. The protein - protein interaction between trypsin and its inhibitors is one of the tightest bound, and trypsin is bound by some of its pancreatic inhibitors nearly irreversibly. In contrast with nearly all known protein assemblies, some complexes of trypsin bound by its inhibitors do not readily dissociate after treatment with 8M urea. References Jump up ^ PDB : 1UTN ​ ; Leiros HK, Brandsdal BO, Andersen OA, Os V, Leiros I, Helland R, Otlewski J, Willassen NP, Smalås AO ( April 2004 ). `` Trypsin specificity as elucidated by LIE calculations, X-ray structures, and association constant measurements ''. Protein Science. 13 ( 4 ) : 1056 -- 70. doi : 10.1110 / ps. 03498604. PMC 2280040. PMID 15044735. Jump up ^ Rawlings ND, Barrett AJ ( 1994 ). `` Families of serine peptidases ''. Methods in Enzymology. Methods in Enzymology. 244 : 19 -- 61. doi : 10.1016 / 0076 - 6879 ( 94 ) 44004 - 2. ISBN 978 - 0 - 12 - 182145 - 6. PMID 7845208. Jump up ^ The German physiologist Wilhelm Kühne ( 1837 - 1900 ) discovered trypsin in 1876. See : W. Kühne ( 1877 ) `` Über das Trypsin ( Enzym des Pankreas ) '', Verhandlungen des naturhistorisch - medicinischen Vereins zu Heidelberg, new series, vol. 1, no. 3, pages 194 - 198. Jump up ^ Engelking, Larry R. ( 2015 - 01 - 01 ). Textbook of Veterinary Physiological Chemistry ( Third Edition ). Boston : Academic Press. pp. 39 -- 44. ISBN 9780123919090. Jump up ^ `` Verhandlungen des Naturhistorisch - medizinischen Vereins zu Heidelberg ''. archive.org. Retrieved 2017 - 04 - 24. ^ Jump up to : `` Digestion of Proteins ''. intranet.tdmu.edu.ua. Retrieved 2017 - 04 - 24. Jump up ^ Polgár L ( October 2005 ). `` The catalytic triad of serine peptidases ''. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences. 62 ( 19 - 20 ) : 2161 -- 72. doi : 10.1007 / s00018 - 005 - 5160 - x. PMID 16003488. Jump up ^ Voet D, Voet JG ( 2011 ). Biochemistry ( 4th ed. ). 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External links The MEROPS online database for peptidases and their inhibitors : Trypsin 1 S01. 151, Trypsin 2 S01. 258, Trypsin 3 S01. 174 Trypsin Inhibitors and Trypsin Assay Method at Sigma - Aldrich Trypsin at the US National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings ( MeSH ) Endopeptidases : serine proteases / serine endopeptidases ( EC 3.4. 21 ) Digestive enzymes Enteropeptidase Trypsin Chymotrypsin Elastase Neutrophil Pancreatic Coagulation factors : Thrombin Factor VIIa Factor IXa Factor Xa Factor XIa Factor XIIa Kallikrein PSA KLK1 KLK2 KLK3 KLK4 KLK5 KLK6 KLK7 KLK8 KLK9 KLK10 KLK11 KLK12 KLK13 KLK14 KLK15 fibrinolysis : Plasmin Plasminogen activator Tissue plasminogen activator Urinary plasminogen activator Complement system Factor B Factor D Factor I MASP MASP1 MASP2 C3 - convertase Other immune system Chymase Granzyme Tryptase Proteinase 3 / Myeloblastin Venombin Ancrod Batroxobin Other Acrosin Prolyl endopeptidase Pronase Proprotein convertases Prostasin Reelin Subtilisin / Furin Streptokinase S1P Cathepsin Enzymes Activity Active site Binding site Catalytic triad Oxyanion hole Enzyme promiscuity Catalytically perfect enzyme Coenzyme Cofactor Enzyme catalysis Regulation Allosteric regulation Cooperativity Enzyme inhibitor Enzyme activator Classification EC number Enzyme superfamily Enzyme family List of enzymes Kinetics Enzyme kinetics Eadie -- Hofstee diagram Hanes -- Woolf plot Lineweaver -- Burk plot Michaelis -- Menten kinetics Types EC1 Oxidoreductases ( list ) EC2 Transferases ( list ) EC3 Hydrolases ( list ) EC4 Lyases ( list ) EC5 Isomerases ( list ) EC6 Ligases ( list ) Molecular and Cellular Biology portal Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trypsin&oldid=854107364 '' Categories : Genes on human chromosome 7 Genes on human chromosome 9 EC 3.4. 21 Peptidase Hidden categories : Protein pages needing a picture Talk Search Contents About Wikipedia Беларуская Bosanski Català Čeština Cymraeg Dansk Deutsch Español Esperanto Euskara فارسی Français Galego 한국어 Հայերեն Íslenska Italiano עברית ქართული Қазақша Nederlands 日本 語 Norsk Norsk nynorsk Occitan Polski Português Русский Српски / srpski Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски Suomi Svenska ไทย Türkçe Українська Tiếng Việt 中文 29 more Edit links This page was last edited on 9 August 2018, at 00 : 53 ( UTC ). 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Question: where is trypsin found in the digestive system
Answer: the first part of the small intestine (the duodenum)