BIOL 1011 Lecture : Lecture5 1
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Chapter 2 enzyme kinetics i: enzymes, scientific method. Main function: to increase chemical reaction rates by lowering the activation. Enzymes are biological catalysts: compounds that speed up a chemical. What are enzymes? reaction without being used up or altered in the reaction energy. *****highlighted words need to be used for writing assignment. We can either measure how quickly the substrate is used up (measure the decrease of reactants) or how quickly the product is formed (measure the increase of products). Enzyme starts with an empty active site (catalytic center) Enzyme releases the product and emerges unchanged from the reaction. Rubisco one of the slowest known enzymes. Even the slowest enzyme can speed up a reaction tremendously would have. Carbonic anhydrase concentrates co2 around rubisco makes structures taken a million years but now reduced to 3rxns/sec out of co2. Look at the enzyme info on lab portal of the catechol reaction.
