BIOL 425 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Linus Pauling, Steroid Hormone Receptor, Artificial Gene Synthesis

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Effects of ph: most enzymes are sensitive to ph and have specific ranges of activity. The ph can stop enzyme activity by denaturating (altering) the three dimensional shape of the enzyme by breaking ionic, and hydrogen bonds. Most enzymes function between a ph of 6 and 8; however pepsin in the stomach works best at a ph of 2 and trypsin at a ph of. 8. substrate saturation: increasing the substrate concentration increases the rate of reaction (enzyme activity). An enzyme is saturated when the active sites of all the molecules are occupied most of the time. At the saturation point, the reaction will not speed up, no matter how much additional substrate is added. The graph of the reaction rate will plateau. On the other, enzymes may evolve an increased secondary activity with little loss to the primary activity (robustness) with little adaptive conflict ( robustness and plasticity below).

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