role of pancreatic juice in digestion

Dear student,

Pancreatic juice contains a variety of enzymes such as trypsinogen, chymotrypsinogen, and carboxy peptidases. These enzymes play an important role in the digestion of proteins.

Physiology of protein-digestion

The enzyme enterokinase is secreted by the intestinal mucosa. It activates trypsinogen into trypsin.

Trypsin then activates the other enzymes of pancreatic juice such as chymotrypsinogen and carboxy peptidase.

Chymotrypsinogen is a milk-coagulating enzyme that converts proteins into peptides.

Carboxy peptidase acts on the carboxyl end of the peptide chain and helps release the last amino acids. Hence, it helps in the digestion of proteins.

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