Download Digestive Enzymes

Carbohydrates
Legend:
 not in the textbook
Digestive Enzymes
 nutrients that will be
absorbed by the small
intestine
Enzyme
Glandular
Location
Optimal
source
Where is it
pH
Where does it active?
come from?
Salivary
Salivary gland Mouth
6.8
amylase
Proteins
maltose
Starch + water
maltose
Maltase
Small
8
Maltose + water
intestine
glucose
(walls)
Include which enzymes?
Pepsinogen, pepsin, trypsinogen, trypsin
glucose +
Pepsinogen
Gastric glands Precursor for what? pepsin
Pepsin
From
pepsinogen in
the gastric
gland
Pancreas
stomach
Small
intestine
(duodenum)
Small
intestine
8
Protein + water
peptides
8
Peptide + water
acids
amino
Nuclease
From
trypsinogen in
the pancreas
Small
intestine
(walls)
pancreas
Small
intestine
(duodenum)
8
RNA and DNA + water
nucleotides
Lipase
Pancreas
8
Fat droplets + water
glycerol + fatty acids
Bile (not an
enzyme)
Liver
Small
intestine
(duodenum)
Small
intestine
(duodenum)
8
Fat
Trypsinogen
Peptidase
Nucleic
acids
Starch + water
Pancreas
Trypsin
Fats
8
Reaction
Show the substrate it catalyzes
and the resulting products.
Pancreatic
amylase
Proteases
Small
intestine
(duodenum)
Small
intestine
Name: _____________
Block: ____
2
Protein + water
peptides
Precursor for what? trypsin
fat droplets
In the following diagram:
 label the pH of each digestive organ
 Indicate which organ each enzyme is created in and then active in.