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What is a bacterial enzyme?


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Bacterial enzyme:

  1. Bacterial enzymes are proteins that are responsible for performing various catalytic operations.
  2. Bacterial enzymes are responsible for the degradation of proteins into their component of amino acids.
  3. The process is known as proteolysis.
  4. Proteolysis occurs at different rates for the different types of proteins that are present in the body.
  5. In order to perform the catalytic operations, bacterial enzymes are involved.
  6. There are many microbes living in soil environments that secrete proteases to break down proteins into amino acids and peptides that can be transported into the cell.

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