Pepsin, a digestive enzyme that degrades proteins in the stomach, is synthesized as pepsinogen and converted to active pepsin in the stomach by the removal of several amino acids. What is the activation of pepsin an example of?

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The activation of pepsin from pepsinogen involves the modification of the enzyme after it has been translated, which is a form of posttranslational regulation. This process does not involve changes at the transcriptional, translational, or posttranscriptional levels.

Pepsin, a Digestive Enzyme That Degrades Proteins in the Stomach