Erepsin

Erepsin (Greek: ereipo - I Will Smash ) is an obsolete term for peptidases. Discovered in 1901 by Otto Cohnheim that degrade extracts from the mucosa of the gut peptides. He called the ferment ( enzyme) that he was responsible for erepsin. Later it turned out that erepsin a complex mixture of various peptidases, ie protein- degrading digestive enzymes is.