Pepsin from porcine gastric mucosa
SIGMA/P7000 - powder, ≥250 units/mg solid
Synonym: Pepsin A; Pepsin from hog stomach
CAS Number: 9001-75-6
EC Number: 232-629-3
MDL Number: MFCD00081840
Product Type: Chemical
| application(s) | diagnostic assay manufacturing |
| biological source | Porcine gastric mucosa |
| form | powder |
| mol wt | 35 kDa |
| Quality Level | 200 ![]() |
| shipped in | wet ice |
| specific activity | ≥250 units/mg solid |
| storage temp. | 2-8°C |
| UniProt accession no. | P00791 ![]() |
| Analysis Note: | Optimum pH is 2-4. Active in 4 M urea and 3 M guanidine HCl. Stable at 60 °C. Pepsin is irreversibly inactivated at pH 8.0 - 8.5. |
| Application: | Pepsin cleavage can be used to produce F(ab′)2 fragments of antibodies. pepsin at www.sigma-aldrich.com/enz . |
| Application: | Pepsin is a peptidase used to digest proteins and is commonly used in the preparation of Fab fragments from antibodies. Pepsin, from porcine gastric mucosa, has been used to hydrolyze dry cervical samples in mice. Product P7000 is provided as a powder and has been used to treat epithelial cells from a single feline mammary carcinoma. |
| Application: | The enzyme from Sigma has been used to simulate in vitro gastric digestion of cooked cod. It has been used to simulate in vitro gastric digestion of cocoa mass and supplemented dietary fiber. It has also been used to increase the fraction of extractable soluble collagen and to lower the immunogenicity of the resulting collagen from bovine dermal tissue. |
| Biochem/physiol Actions: | Pepsin hydrolyzes peptide bonds, not amide or ester linkages. Pepsin cleaves peptides with an aromatic acid on either side of the peptide bond. Sulfur-containing amino acids increase susceptibility to hydrolysis when they are close to the peptide bond. Pepsin preferentially cleaves at the carboxyl side of phenylalanine and leucine and at the carboxyl side of glutamic acid residues. Cleaves Phe-Val, Gln-His, Glu-Ala, Ala-Leu, Leu-Tyr, Tyr-Leu, Gly-Phe, Phe-Phe and Phe-Tyr bonds in the β chain of insulin Pepsin is the major proteolytic enzyme produced in the stomach. It digests proteins through the cleavage of interior peptide linkages.. |
| Biochem/physiol Actions: | Preferential cleavage: hydrophobic and aromatic residues in P1 and P1′ postitions. Cleaves Phe-Val, Gln-His, Glu-Ala, Ala-Leu, Leu-Tyr, Tyr-Leu, Gly-Phe, Phe-Phe and Phe-Tyr bonds in the β chain of insulin |
| Biochem/physiol Actions: | The enzyme does not cleave at valine, alanine, or glycine linkages. Z-L-tyrosyl-L-phenylalani |
| Other Notes: | One unit will produce a ΔA280 of 0.001 per min at pH2.0 at 37 °C, measured as TCA-soluble products using hemoglobin as substrate. (Final volume = 16ml. Light path = 1cm.) |
| Other Notes: | View more information on pepsin at www.sigma-aldrich.com/enz . |
| Packaging: | 1 kg in poly bottle |
| Packaging: | 25, 100 g in poly bottle |
| Symbol | ![]() GHS07,GHS08 |
| Signal word | Danger |
| Hazard statements | H315 - H319 - H334 - H335 |
| Precautionary statements | P261 - P264 - P271 - P280 - P302 + P352 - P305 + P351 + P338 |
| Hazard Codes | Xn |
| Risk Statements | 36/37/38-42 |
| Safety Statements | 22-24-26-36/37 |
| RIDADR | NONH for all modes of transport |
| WGK Germany | WGK 1 |
| Flash Point(F) | Not applicable |
| Flash Point(C) | Not applicable |
| activity | specific activity: ≥250 units/mg solid |
| Storage Temp. | 2-8°C |
| Enzyme Commission (EC) Number | 3.4.23.1 ( BRENDA ![]() ![]() |
| UNSPSC | 12352204 |



