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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: FEBS J. 2007 Nov 1;274(23):6152–6166. doi: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2007.06136.x

Table I.

Stability of pig and fish pepsins at 50 °C and pH 5.3. Aliquots were removed at appropriate times and the residual activity was measured at pH 2.0 and 37 °C using hemoglobin as substrate.

Enzyme Half-life time (min)

Pig pepsin 310±1.55
Fish pepsin A1 270±1.35
Fish pepsin A2 72±0.46