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any of a group of compounds that are inactive precursors of enzymes and require some change (such as the hydrolysis of a fragment that masks an active enzyme) to become active (同)zymogen

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A zymogen (/ˈzaɪmədʒən, -moʊ-/^[1]^[2]), also called a proenzyme (/ˌproʊˈɛnzaɪm/^[3]^[4]), is an inactive precursor of an enzyme. A zymogen requires a biochemical change (such as a hydrolysis reaction revealing the active site, or changing the configuration to reveal the active site) for it to become an active enzyme. The biochemical change usually occurs in Golgi bodies, where a specific part of the precursor enzyme is cleaved in order to activate it. The inactivating piece which is cleaved off can be a peptide unit, or can be independently folding domains comprising more than 100 residues. Although they limit the enzyme's ability, these n-terminal extensions of the enzyme or a “prosegment” often aid in the stabilizing and folding of the enzyme they inhibit.

The pancreas secretes zymogens partly to prevent the enzymes from digesting proteins in the cells in which they are synthesised. Enzymes like pepsin are created in the form of pepsinogen, an inactive zymogen. Pepsinogen is activated when chief cells release it into the gastric acid, whose hydrochloric acid partially activates it. Another partially activated pepsinogen completes the activation by removing the peptide, turning the pepsinogen into pepsin. Accidental activation of zymogens can happen when the secretion duct in the pancreas is blocked by a gallstone resulting in acute pancreatitis.

Fungi also secrete digestive enzymes into the environment as zymogens. The external environment has a different pH than inside the fungal cell and this changes the zymogen's structure into an active enzyme.

Another way that enzymes can exist in inactive forms and later be converted to active forms is by activating only when a cofactor, called a coenzyme, is bound. In this system, the inactive form (the apoenzyme) becomes the active form (the holoenzyme) when the coenzyme binds.

Examples

Examples of zymogens:

Angiotensinogen
Trypsinogen
Chymotrypsinogen
Pepsinogen
Most proteins in the coagulation system (for example, fibrinogen)
Some of the proteins of the complement system
Procaspases
Pacifastin
Proelastase
Prolipase
Procarboxypolypeptidases

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Webster entry on zymogen
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Molecular mechanisms for the conversion of zymogens to active proteolytic enzymes

^ "zymogen". Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Retrieved 2016-01-24.
^ "zymogen". Oxford Dictionaries. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2016-01-24.
^ "proenzyme". Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Retrieved 2016-01-24.
^ "proenzyme". Oxford Dictionaries. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2016-01-24.

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