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Patent Pending A peptide bond can be broken by hydrolysis (the adding of water). In the presence of water they will break down and release 8–16 kilojoule/mol (2–4 kcal/mol)[9] of free energy. This process is extremely slow (up to 1000 years). In living organisms, the process is catalyzed by enzymes.