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$\begingroup$ Could you expand on the sentence about trypsin and pepsin? $\endgroup$
– powerful_bob
Commented May 1 at 3:55
$\begingroup$ I added links to the Wikipedia articles. If you are interested in the answer to your bonus question, ask a separate question. $\endgroup$
– Karsten ♦
Commented May 1 at 10:42
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$\begingroup$ Thanks, I know what they are, I just wasn’t sure what you meant by saying they hydrolyze after (or before) a given amino acid or how that shows that they are AA’s linked to peptide bonds $\endgroup$
– powerful_bob
Commented May 1 at 13:13
$\begingroup$ You can establish with model compounds that trypsin is a peptidase. Then, if it hydrolyses proteins, you can infer that proteins are also using peptide linkages. $\endgroup$
– Karsten ♦
Commented May 1 at 13:40

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