Brush Border Enzymes That Break Remaining Protein Chains into Individual Amino Acids
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Over 90% of dietary protein is absorbed as amino acids, dipeptides, and tripeptides in the small intestine after a multi-stage digestive process. While gastric and pancreatic enzymes do the initial heavy lifting, it is a specific set of brush border enzymes that perform the critical final step of cleaving small peptide fragments into single amino acids, which can then be absorbed into the bloodstream.
