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Trypsin

Trypsin is a medium size globular protein that functions as a pancreatic serine protease. Trypsin was first discovered in 1876 by Kuhne, who investigated the proteolytic activity of the enzyme.

Structure

Trypsin has many important structural aspects. The

Trypsin protein with structural aspects shown.

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secondary structures are shown this figure. The main backbone of the trypsin protein is shown in yellow . The two alpha helices of the protein are shown in blue .
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