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Is pepsin is a gastric enzyme

As pepsin is a gastric enzyme does it, has basic or acid optimum pH? What occur to pepsin if it passes to the duodenum?

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Pepsin performs in the stomach therefore its optimum pH is around 2, an acid pH. Whenever the enzyme passes to duodenum, it meets a high pH and its enzyme activity finishes.   

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