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Aminopeptidase

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Aminopeptidases are digestive enzymes:

  • secreted by acinar cells of the pancreas
  • secreted by enterocytes onto the brush border of the small intestine

They are exopeptidases which cleave the terminal peptide bond at the amino end of a peptide or polypeptide.


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