Active site
... The active site of an
enzyme is the binding site where catalysis occurs. ... inhibition , the inhibitor binds to the
enzyme at another site, the allosteric site , and this causes a structural change in the
enzyme such that the active site is rendered useless. ...
Allostery
... In biochemistry , an
enzyme or other protein is allosteric if its ... Nemethy, and Filmer. Both postulate that
enzyme subunits exist in one of two conformations, ... The concerted model of allostery postulates that
enzyme subunits are connected in such a way that a ...
Allostery
... In biochemistry , an
enzyme or other protein is allosteric if its ... Nemethy, and Filmer. Both postulate that
enzyme subunits exist in one of two conformations, ... The concerted model of allostery postulates that
enzyme subunits are connected in such a way that a ...
Apoptosis
... nucleus, is cell suicide triggered by the nuclear
enzyme poli(ADP-ribose) polymerase-1, or PARP-1. This
enzyme plays a crucial role in maintaining genomic ... and purified interleukin-1-beta converting
enzyme (ICE) in human cells, and succeeded in cloning ...
ATPase
... reaction releases energy , which the
enzyme (in most cases) harnesses to drive other ... mitochondria and chloroplasts is an anabolic
enzyme that harnesses the energy of a transmembrane ... a molecule of adenosine triphosphate (ATP). This
enzyme works when a proton moves down the concentration ...
Competitive inhibitor
... acts on the same active site as the normal
enzyme substrate . The substrate molecules cannot enter ... In this mode of inhibition, the activity of the
enzyme is completely blocked by the inhibitor and ... the concentration of substrate does not restore
enzyme activity.
The kinetics of these activities is ...
Ion gradient
... used for making and utilizing ion gradients. The
enzyme Na+/K+ ATPase use ATP to make a sodium ion ... the environment with the help of the solar driven
enzyme bacteriorhodopsin , here it is used for driving the molecular motor
enzyme ATP synthase to make the necessary ...
Enzyme
... An
enzyme (in Greek en = in and zyme = blend) is a ... much faster than it otherwise would; the
enzyme (again, as with any catalyst) remains unaltered ... of it rolling up the hill. Catalysis by an
enzyme is analogous to removing a pebble that is ...
Isozyme
... defined them as different variants of the same
enzyme having identical functions and present in the same individual . This definition encompasses (1)
enzyme variants that are the product of from different ... if the mutations do not immediately prevent the
enzyme from functioning, but instead modify either its ...
Lipase
... A Lipase is a water - soluble
enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of ester ... human pancreatic lipase (HPL), which is the main
enzyme responsible for breaking down fats in the ... lipids. In the example of lysosomal lipase, the
enzyme is confined within an organelle called the ...
Michaelis-Menten kinetics
... Michaelis-Menten kinetics describe the rate of
enzyme mediated reactions for many enzymes. It is named ... constant.
To determine the maximum rate of an
enzyme mediated reaction, the substrate concentration ... ( V max ) of the enzyme. In this state,
enzyme active sites are saturated with substrate. Note ...
Polymerase chain reaction
... repeated cycles of duplication driven by an
enzyme called DNA polymerase .
DNA polymerase ... strand. In Mullis's original PCR process, the
enzyme was used in vitro (in a controlled environment ... however, DNA-Polymerase was destroyed so that the
enzyme had to be replenished after the heating stage of ...
Restriction enzyme
... A restriction
enzyme (or restriction endonuclease ) is an
enzyme that cuts double-stranded DNA . The
enzyme makes two incisions, one through each of the ...
Signal transduction
... Binding of Ca 2+ in the active center of an
enzyme
One of the best studied interactions of Ca ... NO is made from arginine and oxygen by the
enzyme NO synthase , with citrulline as a by-product. ... through activation of its target receptor, the
enzyme soluble guanylate cyclase , which when activated, ...
Virus
... the viral RNA is directly copied using an
enzyme
called RNA replicase . This
enzyme then uses that RNA copy as a template to make ... viruses, called the retroviruses , uses the
enzyme reverse transcriptase to synthesize a ...
ATP synthase
... An ATP synthase ( EC 3.6.3.14) is a general term for an
enzyme that can synthesize adenosine triphosphate (ATP) from adenosine ... synthase is also present in chloroplasts (CF O F 1 -ATP synthase). The
enzyme is integrated into thylakoid membrane; the CF 1 -part sticks into ...
Biochemistry
... . Recently biochemistry has focused more specifically on the chemistry of
enzyme -mediated reactions, and on the properties of proteins.
The biochemistry ...
The dawn of biochemistry may have been the discovery of the first
enzyme , diastase , in 1833 by Anselme Payen . In 1828 , Friedrich Whler ...
Biophysics
... Zurab Urushadze , authors of the Quantum-Mechanical (Physical) Model of
enzyme Catalysis
John P. Wikswo , research on biomagnetism
References ... R.R., Madumarov A.K., Urushadze Z.D. and Kharkats Yu.I. Theory of
enzyme Catalysis.- Molekuliarnaya Biologia (Moscow), 6, 1972, pp. 431-439 (In ...
Cancer
... for cancer-related fatigue,
chemotherapy compared with pancreatic
enzyme therapy plus specialized diet for the treatment of pancreatic cancer , ... include COX-2 inhibitors (which inhibit a cyclooxygenase
enzyme involved in the synthesis of proinflammatory prostaglandins ).
...
Gene therapy
... cell, or the chromosomes of the cell. This process is done by another
enzyme carried in the virus called integrase .
Now that the genetic material ... of the problems of gene therapy using retroviruses is that the integrase
enzyme can insert the genetic material of the virus in any arbitrary position in ...
Immune system
... at certain sequences, and enzymes that protect their own DNA from this
enzyme by methylating the same sequence. Therefore, the bacterium's DNA will not be damaged by the first
enzyme because of the presence of the second enzyme. However, when a ...
Lac repressor
... The lac repressor is an
enzyme which stops the metabolism of lactose in bacteria as long as glucose ... DNA. DNA can be thought of as a highway , with entrances and exits. The
enzyme RNA polymerase is like a car . For a specific protein sequence to be ...
Lineweaver-Burke diagram
... ) is a graphical representation of the Lineweaver-Burke equation of
enzyme kinetics :
where v is the reaction velocity , K m is the ... Lineweaver-Burke plot is useful for rapidly identifying important terms in
enzyme kinetics, such as K m and v max . For instance, the y-intercept of such ...
Lysozyme
... Lysozyme 3D structure.
Lysozyme is an
enzyme ( EC 3.2.1.17 ), commonly referred to as the "body's own antibiotic ". ... neutrophils (PMN) and released to the mucosal secretions.
This
enzyme functions by attacking peptidoglycan by hydrolyzing the bond that ...
Monoclonal antibody
... Furthermore, one uses only myeloma cells that have lost a specific
enzyme ( hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase , HGPRT) and therefore ... rare, but when one succeeds, then the healthy partner supplies the needed
enzyme and the fused cell can survive in HAT medium. This is the trick to detect ...
Neurotransmitter
... Another mechanism for removal of a neurotransmitter is digestion by an
enzyme . For example, at cholinergic synapses (where acetylcholine is the neurotransmitter) the
enzyme acetylcholinesterase breaks down the acetylcholine. Neuroactive peptides ...
Peroxisome
... as D-amino acid oxidase and urease oxidase .
The peroxisome contains the
enzyme catalase which converts H 2 O 2 (hydrogen peroxide, a toxic byproduct ... of the enzymes found in a peroxisome are imported from the cytosol . Each
enzyme transferred to a peroxisome has a special sequence at one end of the ...
Polysaccharide
... bonded together by beta- linkages. Humans and many other animals lack an
enzyme to break the beta- linkages, so they do not digest cellulose. Certain animals can digest cellulose, because bacteria possesing the
enzyme are present in their gut.
Acidic polysaccharides
Acidic ...
Purine
... humans and some animal species (e.g. dogs) that lack an intrinsic urease
enzyme that can further degrade uric acid. The deficiency of another enzyme, ... (or from food) can also be salvaged and reused in new nucleotides. The
enzyme adenine phosphoribosyltransferase salvages adenine, while ...
Blood type
... alleles : i , A , and B . The gene encodes a glycosyltransferase , an
enzyme that modifies the carbohydrate content of the red blood cell ... B antigens. For instance, the B allele must be present to produce the B
enzyme that modifies the H antigen to become the B antigen. It is the same for ...
RNA
... of higher-order structures.
Synthesis
RNA is made by an
enzyme , RNA polymerase , using DNA as a template. The synthesis begins when the
enzyme binds to special promoter regions on the DNA helix; these regions mark ...
Vesicle
... are a basic tool of the cell for organizing metabolism , transport,
enzyme storage, as well as being chemical reaction chambers. Many vesicles are ... The membrane of the lysosome is impermeable for lysozyme , the
enzyme that does the actual digestion, to protect the cell interior from being ...
Coenzyme A
... into Acetyl-CoA is referred to as the Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Reaction. It is catalyzed by an enzyme-complex called pyruvate dehydrogenase . The
enzyme consists of 60 subunits : 24 pyruvate dehydrogenase, 24 dihydrolipoyl transacetylase , and 12 dihydrolipoyl dehydrogenase (commonly denoted E1, E2, ...
Activation energy
... state). A substance that modifies the transition state to lower the activation energy is termed a catalyst ; a biological catalyst is termed an
enzyme .
Fig 1. The enthalpy profile of a reaction between two hydrogen peroxide molecules to form water and oxygen. The Transition State ...
Antibiotic
... than discarding the contaminated plate, Fleming noticed a clear zone surrounding the colony of mold . Having previously studied the ability of the
enzyme lysozyme to kill bacteria, Fleming realized that the mold was secreting something that stopped bacterial growth. He knew that this substance ...
Sticky end/blunt end
... . Blunt ends may be ligated, but the reaction is significantly slower. These terms are most commonly used to describe the product of a restriction
enzyme digestion of DNA.
...
Calvin cycle
... carbon dioxide into organic compounds that can be used by the organism. This set of reactions is also called carbon fixation . The key
enzyme of the cycle is called RubisCO .
The total sum of reactions in the Calvin cycle is the following:
6 CO 2 + 12 NADPH + 12 H 2 O + 18 ATP ...
Cell division
... , become shorter with each division and eventually can no longer protect the chromosome. Cancer cells, on the other hand, are "immortal." An
enzyme called telomerase allows them to continue dividing indefinitely.
See also
Cell cycle
Cell growth
External link
How ...
Citric acid cycle
... by the condensation of oxaloacetate and acetyl-CoA.
Figure 1 : Schematic drawing of the citric acid cycle.
Molecule
enzyme
Reaction type
Reactants / Coenzymes
Products / Coenzymes
I. Citrate
1. Aconitase
Dehydration
H 2 O
...
Coenzyme
... A coenzyme (a.k.a. a prosthetic group ) is an organic non- protein molecule that is a functional part of an
enzyme . Coenzymes are generally defined as cofactors that are organic molecules . Many coenzymes are phosphorylated water -soluble vitamins . ...