what splits protein into amino acids
All Enzymes are basically proteins. Amino acids are building blocks of proteins.   Another Answer   No enzyme 'turns' a protein into multiple amino acids. What an enzyme â¦ may do is split a protein down to its substituent amino acids. (Proteins are inherently long stings of amino acids joined by peptide bonds.) The group of enzymes that split proteins (hydrolyse proteins) to their single amino acids are called proteases.   Pepsin is a protease released by the stomach.