BIOLOGY 2A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Uncoupling Protein, Intermembrane Space, Oxidative Phosphorylation

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All the various processes (chemical reactions)that occur in the cell. Hydrolysis (water added) and condensation reactions (water removed) Phosphorylation of proteins phosphate group is taken from or added to atp. Redox reactions - key in the electron transport chain. Reactions occur to establish an equilibrium at the completion. Activation energy - reactants and products have energy . Barrier between reactants to products - energy must be added to overcome it. Even if products have lower energy compared to the reactants. Enzymes reduce the activation energy by a large amount. Many reactions wont occur without enzymes at all. Enzymes aren"t altered in reactions, substrate specific (this is important to the proteins). Substrate fits into enzyme (reactant) and facilitates the reaction. Once enzyme catalyzes reaction, product is released and this continues. Rate of reaction as a function of substrate, as substrate increases, the rate of reaction also increases. More substrate - tends to be a threshold and saturate the enzyme.

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