verb
- to treat or digest with pepsin; to subject to the action of pepsin
Usage: technical; chiefly used in biochemistry and medicine
Examples
- The laboratory technician will pepsinate the protein sample to break it down into smaller peptides.
- Researchers pepsinate tissue samples to prepare them for further analysis.
- The enzyme was used to pepsinate the food mixture in the digestive study.
- To pepsinate the solution, they added pepsin and adjusted the pH to optimal levels.