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Since pepsin is a gastric enzyme does it have an acid or basic optimum pH?

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Since pepsin is a gastric enzyme does it have an acid or basic optimum pH? What happens to pepsin when it passes into the duodenum?

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Pepsin acts within the stomach so its optimum pH is around 2, an acid pH. When the enzyme passes into the duodenum it meets a higher pH and its enzyme activity ends.

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