BIOL 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Heme, Hspa8, Lipid-Anchored Protein
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E. coli is a very simple organism; it grows and divides quickly. It must convert all those into amino carbon source (glucose), nh4 acids, nucleotides, lipids, sugars, vitamins (coenzymes) and macromolecules (dna, The synthesis and breakdown occurs through interconnected pathways involving many different reactions called the metabolic pathway. Cellular reactions are governed by r u l e s t h a t g o v e r n a l l c h e m i c a l reactions. Each reaction is catalyzed by speci c enzymes binding speci c ligands. Organisms devote much of their genome to specifying metabolic proteins (see table on the right). 51 52, 78 81; berg et al. pp. An enzyme"s active site consists of two functionally important regions: the substrate binding site, which recognizes and binds the substrate or substrates, and the catalytic site, which carries out the chemical reaction once the substrate has bound.
