Ch 3 Flashcards
What is ATP?
The energy currency of cells
What is potential energy?
Stored energy
What is kinetic energy?
Energy of motion
What is chemical energy?
Energy stored in bonds
What is electrical energy?
How neurons communicate
What is mechanical energy?
How our muscles move
What is sound energy?
Sound waves
What is radiant energy?
What we see
What are thermodynamics?
Study of energy transformations
What is heat energy?
Waste of all the chemical reactions
First law of thermodynamics
We can take it and convert it
Second law of thermodynamics
Lose some energy to heat
What is oxidation?
Reduction reaction
Oxidized during oxidation
Structure that loses an electron
Reduced during reduction
Structure that gains an electron
High energy molecule
NADH
Exergonic reactions
Putting energy out; breaking things down
Endergonic reactions
Putting energy in
What is the reaction rate?
How long does it take for a reaction to happen
What is activation energy?
Amount of energy you need for a reaction to happen
What are enzymes?
Catalysts within the body lower the amount of activation energy needed
No enzyme present
Uncatalyzed
Enzyme present
Catalyzed; speed up
What are cofactors?
Ions required to ensure a reaction occurs
Organic cofactors called
Coenzymes
Example of coenzymes
Vitamins
Enzymes are important for what?
Function
Active site
Structure in protein chain need to be specific
Location of enzymes
Are everywhere
What happens during transferase?
Kinase
What does pyruvate dehydrogenase do?
Transfers hydrogen from pyruvate
What does DNA polymerase do?
Helps form DNA
What does lactase do?
Digests lactose
Rate of a chemical reaction may be accelerated by
Increase in enzyme or substrate concentration
What is saturation?
So much substrate is present all enzymes are in engaged in reaction
Human enzymes function at
Optimal temperature (98.6)
Types of intramolecular interactions
Hydrophobic, H-bonds, Ionic bonds, Disulfide
Enzymes functions best at
Optimal pH (6 and 8)
What are inhibitors?
Prevent an enzyme from doing its job
What are competitive inhibitors?
Competing for the active site
What are noncompetitive inhibitors?
Go to the allosteric site
What is metabolic pathway?
Series of enzymes
What is multienzyme complex?
Group of attached enzymes
What is phosphorylation?
Adding a phosphate
What is dephosphorylation?
Removing a phosphate
Preformed by protein kinases
Phosphorylation
Preformed by phosphatases
Dephosphorylation
What is metabolic?
Sum of all chemical reactions
What is ATP?
An energy-carrying molecule that fuels all living cells.
What is required to make ATP?
Oxygen
C6 H12 O6
Sugar
C6 H12 O6 + 6 O2 ->
6 CO2 + 6 H20
What is oxidative phosphorylation?
ATP formed from phosphorylation of ADP.
What is required in the location of glucose oxidation?
20 different enzymes
What is cytosol?
Semifluid cell contents of the cell
What is the mitochondria?
Double bond organelle
Stages of glucose oxidation
Glycolysis, intermediate stage, citric acid cycle, electron transport system
Occurs in cytosol, does not require oxygen
Glycolosis
Occurs in mitochondria, require oxygen
Intermediate stage, citric acid cycle, electron transport system
What is glycolysis?
Determines what goes in and what goes out
If sufficient 02 available
Pyruvate enters mitochondria
If insufficient 02 available
Pyruvate converted to lactate
What is electron transport system?
We get ATP from NADH and FADH2
Formed during one citric acid cycle
1 ATP, 3 NADH, 1 FADH2
What is insufficient oxygen?
Didn’t utilize oxygen and everything starts shutting down
What do fatty acids do?
Utilizes CoA and this enters pathway at citric acid cycle
What are amino acids?
a waste product.