Pepsin, a digestive enzyme that degrades proteins in the stomach, is synthesized as pepsinogen and converted to active

pepsin in the stomach by the removal of several amino acids. The activation of pepsin is an example of ____.



a. transcriptional regulation
b. translational regulation
c. posttranscriptional regulation
d. posttranslational regulation
e. RNAi


ANSWER: d

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