Biochemistry 2280A Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Enzyme Catalysis, Activation Energy, Reaction Rate
22 Sep 2020
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Substrates of the enzyme) to give some type of molecular product. Biochem section 1, topic 5 notes enzyme catalysis: enzymes lower the activation energy by creating a favourable environment for the transition state. Is one of the enzymes secreted by the pancreas that allows breakdown of dietary protein during digestion. Zymogens that lack enzymatic activity: this allows the elaboration of enzyme activity to be precisely controlled. Describe the mechanism of action and kinetics of competitive inhibitors of enzymes. Inhibiting enzymatic activity can be important and useful: e. g. many antibiotics and other medications are enzyme inhibitors. Enzyme catalysis: biological catalysts, perform nearly all chemical transformations in cells, accelerate, but are unchanged by, a reaction. Biochem section 1, topic 5 notes enzyme catalysis: most enzymes are proteins, name most often ends in ase, (e. g. protease) in, (trypsin) or zyme (lysozyme, substrate the molecule on which an enzyme acts.
