Aspartic proteinases in the digestive tr
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Navarrete del Toro, MarΓa de los Angeles ;GarcΓa-carreΓo, Fernando ;LΓ³pez, Manue
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Article
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2006
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Decapod crustaceans synthesize highly active proteolytic enzymes in the midgut gland and release at least a part of them into the stomach where they facilitate the first step in peptide hydrolysis. The most common proteinases in the gastric fluid characterized so far are serine proteinases, that is,