Biology 1202B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Digestive Enzyme, Peptidoglycan, Antibiotics

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All life is made up of monomers and polymers: subunits joined together, nucleic acids, proteins, carbohydrates etc. Biochemical pathways are involved in synthesizing polymers from monomers: anabolic. Biochemical pathways are involved in breaking down polymers into monomers: catabolic. Many biochemical reactions involve water: h and oh added or removed during the reaction, removal of water during synthesis reaction, addition of water during breakdown reactions. Chemical reactions involve bond breaking and formation. Bonds must be made less stable in order to break: this requires a small input of energy activation energy, brings reaction to completion state. A catalyst is a chemical agent that change the rate of reaction without being consumed: enzymes are catalytic proteins. Enzymes reduce activation energy of exergonic reactions. Enzymes do not alter the g of the reaction. Substrate is a reactant which binds to an enzyme. When bound, the enzyme catalyzes the conversion of substrate to the product.

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