what is the role of hydrochloric acid during the process of digestion in stomach ?
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The gastric chief cells of the stomach secrete enzymes for protein breakdown (inactive pepsinogen, and in infancy rennin). Hydrochloric acid activates pepsinogen into the enzyme pepsin, which then helps digestion by breaking the bonds linking amino acids, a process known as proteolysis.
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Hydrochloric acid plays an important role during digestion.
It helps to kill microbes inside the stomach.
It also helps in making the medium acidic for breakdown of proteins.
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