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Pepsin is a digestive enzyme. It is made in an inactive form, pepsinogen, which is activated by the acidity of the stomach to self-cleave (cut itself) into a formed called the cleaved molecule. This cleaved molecule is active pepsin, which goes on to cleave more pepsinogen molecules, leading to a cascade of rapid pepsin activation (and many more active pepsin molecules). This pathway is an example of:

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