Adding a few extra pieces to a milk protein fragment makes it work way better with an enzyme, because the enzyme grabs onto it more tightly.

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Peptide substrates for chymosin (rennin). Isolation and substrate behaviour of two tryptic fragments of bovine kappa casein.

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1980 Jul

The study shows that adding a small piece of protein (residues 98–102) to another piece (103–112) makes it much better at binding to the enzyme chymosin, just like the claim says.

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Peptide substrates for chymosin (rennin). Isolation and substrate behaviour of two tryptic fragments of bovine kappa casein.

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DOI: 10.1111/J.1432-1033.1980.TB04737.X

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