Question

To get ready for football season, Jared has been eating a lot of lean protein, such as chicken. As the bites of chicken make their way to Jareds stomach, what pancreatic enzyme will MOST likely activate to begin digesting protein found in the chicken?

Answer 1

Trypsin — the pancreas secretes trypsinogen, which is activated in the duodenum by enterokinase (enteropeptidase) to trypsin. Trypsin then cleaves proteins and activates other pancreatic proteases (chymotrypsin, carboxypeptidases).