BIOL 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Enzyme, Starch, Reduction Potential

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A catalyst is any substance that speeds up a chemical reaction without itself being used up (it doesn"t change the reactions!) Most biological catalysts are proteins called enzymes (1)only overall reactions with negative delta g can be catalyzed! (2)delta g remains the same! Reactions don"t start on their own; they need the catalyst. Catalysts are necessary to overcome the activation energy at the start of a reaction despite delta g being negative. A cell cannot heat up parts of the cell, so the cells need enzymes to lower the activation energy. Substrate is the reactant, it binds to an active site to form the enzyme substrate complex where the reaction is catalyzed. Enzymes are highly specific: they catalyze exactly one reaction, e. g. starch example with alpha helix. The ph has to be constant because if it were changed, the charges would be changed. Enzymes are saturated when all binding sites are occupied: maximum rate = turnover from 1 molecule per.

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