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Enzymes. Biological Catalysts. Activation Energy. Why don’t thermodynamically favorable reactions occur without the aid of enzymes?. Activation Energy. How can the rate of a cellular reaction be increased?. Enzymes. Enzymes. What properties do all catalysts share?. Enzymes.
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Enzymes Biological Catalysts
Activation Energy • Why don’t thermodynamically favorable reactions occur without the aid of enzymes?
Activation Energy • How can the rate of a cellular reaction be increased?
Enzymes • What properties do all catalysts share?
Enzymes • What is the active site and how is it related to the structure of the enzyme?
Enzymes • What are prosthetic groups and how do they aid enzymes? • Why does a cell need thousands of different enzymes to function properly?
Enzymes • How are enzymes affected by temperature? pH?
Enzymes • How does the induced fit model of substrate binding compare with the older lock and key model?
Enzymes • Once substrate molecules are bound how do enzymes bring about catalysis?
Enzyme Kinetics • What are the factors that influence the rate of an enzyme catalyzed reaction?
Enzyme Kinetics • For a given amount of enzyme what is the relationship between reaction velocity and substrate concentration?
Enzyme Kinetics • How can one explain the observations of Michaelis and Menten?
Enzyme Kinetics • What are Vmax and Km and why are they important to cells? • What is the turnover number (Kcat)?
Enzyme Kinetics • Of what use is the Lineweaver-Burk equation and plot?
Enzyme Kinetics • What specifically distinguishes reversible enzyme inhibition from irreversible inhibition?
Enzyme Kinetics • What distinguishes competitive inhibition from non-competitive inhibition?
Enzyme Regulation • What is meant by substrate-level regulation? • How does feedback inhibition control enzyme activity?
Enzyme Regulation • How do allosteric enzymes differ from other kinds of enzymes? • What are allosteric effectors?
Enzyme Regulation • How does allosteric regulation work?
Enzyme Regulation • What is cooperativity? • How is covalent modification different from allosteric regulation?
Enzyme Regulation • Which enzymes are regulated by proteolytic cleavage?
Ribozymes • What led to the idea that RNA could function as an enzyme? • How did this discovery alter our view of the origin of life?