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Is chymotryps...
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Is chymotrypsin a digestive enzyme?
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Chymotrypsin:
Chymotrypsin is a digestive enzyme secreted by the pancreas.
It is a proteolytic enzyme secreted in an inactive form as chymotrypsinogen and is converted to chymotrypsin by trypsin.
Chymotrypsin helps in the digestion of proteins.
It converts proteases to dipeptides.
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