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Ch. 7 Flashcards

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1
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What are the properties of enzymes?

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  • Most enzymes are proteins
  • Work under mild conditions
  • Increase reaction rate
  • Greater reaction specificity
  • Capacity for regulation
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What are the working conditions of enzymes?

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  • Neutral pH
  • Low temperature below 100ºC
  • Atmospheric pressure
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What is the lock and key model?

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Substrate binds to the enzyme perfectly (not accurate)

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What is induced fit model?

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  • Enzyme is flexible to accommodate the ill-fitting substrate
  • Permits a much larger number of weaker interactions between the substrate and enzyme
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What are the critical aspects of enzyme structure and function?

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  1. Enzymes usually bind to substrates with high affinity and specificity
  2. Substrate binding to the active site induces changes in the enzyme
  3. Enzyme activity is highly regulated in cells
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What are the modes of enzyme regulation?

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  • Bioavailability
  • Catalytic efficiency
  • Covalent modification
  • Allosteric regulation (similar to hemoglobin)
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7
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What is a substrate?

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Substance an enzyme acts upon

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8
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What is an active site?

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Binding pocket in an enzyme

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What is a cofactor?

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A small inorganic molecule, often a metal ion, that aids in the catalytic reaction mechanism within the enzyme active site

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What is a coenzyme?

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An organic enzyme cofactor

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What is a prosthetic group?

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Coenzyme that is permanently associated with an enzyme

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What are co-substrates?

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Loosely bound molecules that are transformed to a co-product during the course of an enzymatic reaction

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What is the difference between prosthetic groups and co-substrates?

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Prosthetic groups are permanently associated while co-substrates are loosely bound

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How are enzymes regulated?

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  • Bioavailability
  • Control of catalytic efficiency through protein modification
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gene level vs directly

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16
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How does pH/temperature affect enzymes?

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Certain enzymes work best at certain pH/temperature –> if you decrease/increase pH/temperature, enzyme activity will decrease

17
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How does activation energy and rate of a reaction in the presence or absence of an enzyme affect entropy?

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With enzymes
- Increase rate of reaction
- Reduce entropy by orienting the substrates appropriately

Without enzymes
- Slower rate of reaction
- Higher entropy because the substrate is not oriented properly

18
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What are the 6 classes of enzymes?

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  • Oxidoreductase
  • Transferase
  • Hydrolase
  • Lyase
  • Isomerase
  • Ligase
19
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What are the functional groups of enzymes?

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Catalytic functional groups in the active site mediate three main types of catalytic reaction mechanisms

20
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What are the types of catalysis?

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  1. Acid-base catalysis
  2. Covalent catalysis
  3. Metal ion catalysis
21
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How are enzymes modified to change their activity?

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Reversible covalent modification
- Phosphorylation and dephosphorylation (kinases and phosphotases)
- Adding fatty acids

22
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What is allosteric regulation?

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  • First step of a metabolic pathway is often controlled by a regulated enzyme to maximize the efficient use of metabolic intermediates
  • Feedback inhibition: the end product of a pathway functions as an inhibitor of the first enzyme in the pathway (ex: ATCase)
23
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In what directions do positive and negative regulators shift the curve?

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  • Positive regulators shift curve left
  • Negative regulators shift curve right
24
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What is the Michaelis-Menten equation?

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  • small Km –> more [ES] –> more readily binds to substrate at low [substrate] (greater affinity for substrate)
  • large Km –> less [E] –> lower affinity for substrate
25
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Michaelis-Menten graph

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26
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What is the Lineweaver-Burke equation?

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  • Used to draw a double reciprocal plot of the enzyme data
  • Easier way to determine Vmax and Km
27
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Lineweaver-Burke graph

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28
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Explain enzyme kinetics.

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  • Quantitative study of the rate of chemical reactions performed
  • Involves relating reaction rates to free energy and equilibrium
  • Reaction rate = velocity (v)
  • Substrate concentration = [S]
  • k = rate constant of reaction
  • v = k[S]
29
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What is Km on a graph?

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  • Substrate concentration
  • Measures how easily the enzyme can be saturated by the substrate
30
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What is Km with respect to enzyme and substrate?

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  • Amount of substrate it takes for an enzyme to reach Vmax/2
31
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What is competitive inhibition?

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  • Inhibitor looks like substrate
  • Inhibitor binds to active site where substrate binds
  • Km of enzyme increases
  • Vmax of reaction stays the same
32
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What is noncompetitive inhibition?

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  • Inhibitor doesn’t look like substrate
  • Inhibitor binds to different site other than substrate binding site
  • Km stays the same
  • Vmax decreaes
33
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How do you determine the type of inhibition using Km and Vmax?

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  • Compare graphs with and without inhibitors
  • Competitive inhibition: Vmax is unchanged, Km increases
  • Noncompetitive inhibition: Vmax decreases, Km is unchanged
34
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How do you find Vmax and Km on a Michaelis-Menten graph?

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35
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How do you find Vmax and Km on a Lineweaver-Burke graph?

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36
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What are the three major ways enzymes increase reaction rate?

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  1. Lower activation energy by stabilizing the transition state
  2. Provide an alternate path (intermediates) for product formation
  3. Reduce entropy by orienting the substrates appropriately for the reaction to occur

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