DISCUSS THE MAIN STEPS IN TJE DIGESTION OF PROTEIN AS THE FOOD PASSES THROUGH DIFFERENT PARTS OF ALIMENTARY CANAL

The digestion of proteins begins in the stomach and is completed in the small intestine. The digestive juice secreted in the gastric glands present on the stomach walls is called gastric juice. The food that enters the stomach becomes acidic on mixing with this gastric juice.

The main components of gastric juice are hydrochloric acid, pepsinogen, mucus, and rennin. Hydrochloric acid dissolves the bits of food and creates an acidic medium so that pepsinogen is converted into pepsin. Pepsin is a protein- digesting enzyme. It is secreted in its inactive form called pepsinogen, which then gets activated by hydrochloric acid. The activated pepsin then converts proteins into proteases and peptides. 

Rennin is a proteolytic enzyme,released in an inactive form called prorennin. Rennin plays an important role in the digestion of milk in children.

The proteins, proteoses and peptides (partially hydrolysed proteins) on reaching the small intestines are acted upon by the proteolytic enzymes of pancreatic juice. 

The enzymes of the intestinal juice like dipeptidases now act upon the dipeptides and converts them into absorbable form i.e amino acids.