enzyme regulation Flashcards
substrate-level control acts on
a single reaction
feedback control targets
a different step in the pathway
activator ______ more products
promote
inhibitors _____ more products
prevent
strategies for enzyme regulation:
regulate the amount or availability (on/off switch)
temporal control of gene expression
protein degradation
enzyme compartmentalization
substrate availability
strategies for enzyme regulation:
regulate the activity of the enzyme (volume control)
isozymes and isoforms
covalent modifications
allostery
regulation of enzyme amount:
temporal control of gene expression (controlling gene expression of enzyme of interest)
regulation of chromatin remodeling
regulation of transcription
regulation of splicing and processing
regulation of transport out of nucleus
degradation of mRNA in cytosol
translational regulation
protein modifications
regulation of enzyme amount:
protein/enyzme degradation
intracellular digestion in lysosomes (low pH and acid hydrolases degrade in lysosome)
proteasome
regulation of availability:
enzyme compartmentalization
enzymes only acting in a specific location
regulation of availability:
substrate availability
availability of 2nd messengers in signaling cascades
regulation of enzyme activity:
isozymes and isoforms function to
catalyze the same reaction but with different efficiencies by mixing matching subunits: paralogs (gene duplication) and alternative splicing
also due to heterozygous alleles, monomer vs dimer/trimer etc, covalent modifications
lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) participates in
lactic acid fermentation pathway
pyruvate (end product from glycolysis) + NAHD + H+ –> NAD+ + lactic acid
LDH is a
tetramer (4 available isoform units)
LDH 1 > 2
heart attack
LDH 5 > 4
liver damage
regulation of enzyme activity:
reversible covalent modifications
creates nonproteinogenic amino acids by adding 1 or more functional groups to activate/inactivate the enzyme
reversible covalent modification:
lipids
myristoylation
farnesylation (farnesyl is an intermediate in cholesterol synthesis)