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Give an example of two enzymes that catalyse the same reaction?

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Glucokinase and hexokinase

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What reaction to glucokinase and hexokinase catalyse?

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Glucose + ATP → Glucose-6-phosphate + ADP

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Where is glucokinase found?

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In the liver

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Where is hexokinase found?

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Everywhere other than the liver

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What kinetic properties do glucokinase and hexokinase have (KM and vmax)

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What does a graph of the activity of glucokinase and hexokinase look like and explain it?

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Hexokinase is constantly working flat out whereas glucokinase can respond proportionally to blood glucose

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Why does hexokinase have a low KM?

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So it can respond proportionally to blood glucose

When [glucose] is low you don’t want the liver to break it down as you want it to be released into the blood

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What is the difference between glucose-6-phosphate and glucose?

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G-6-P cannot leave the cell

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What do enzymes being found where they shouldn’t be indicate?

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Tissue damage, enzymes may escape from damaged cells

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How is enzyme activity measured in clinical scenarioes?

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With an arbitory value

1U/ml o 100% = normal

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What is an isozyme?

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Different enzymes that catalyse the same reaction

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Where are isoenzymes often found relative to each other?

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In different tissues

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Are isoenzymes coded for by the same gene?

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No, they are products of different genes

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What is electrophoresis?

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Process where you can seperate out biological molecules

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How does electrophoresis work?

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Larger molecules get stuck and so move less than smaller molecules, charge also has an impact

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What is creatine kinase (CK)?

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An example of an isoenzyme which is a dimer made up from two polypeptide chains B and M

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What is a dimer?

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Oligomer consisting of two monomers joined by bonds that can be strong or weak, covalent or intermolecular

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What is an oligomer?

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Molecule complex of chemicals that consists of a few monomer units

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What are the 3 isomorms that creatine kinase (CK) can form?

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CK1 (BB)

CK2 (BM)

CK3 (MM)

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How are enzymes used in diagnosis?

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Measure activity and compare with normal

Sepperate differnt forms of enzymes by electrophoresis

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Are enzymes restricted to interacting with one substance?

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No, most enzymes can interact with a variety of substances

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How does the KM vary between enzymes and their different substrates?

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Changes for each substrate

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What does catalysing a reaction with two or more substances normally involve?

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The transfer of groups from one to the other

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What ways can the catalyse of two or more substances with the transfer of groups occur?

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Random order or ordered with ternary complex

No ternary complex formation

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What does a random order reaction involving a ternary complex look like?
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What does an ordered reaction involving a ternary complex look like?
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With does a reaction with no formation of a ternary complex look like?
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What is an example of an enzyme that uses an ordered sequential mechanism?
Lactate dehydrogenase for the reaction of pyruvate to lactate
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What is an example of an enzyme that uses a random sequential mechanism?
Creatine kinase (CK) for creatine to phosphocreatine
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What do ordered and unordered squential mechanisms have in common?
The ternary complex is formed first
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What is an example of an enzyme that uses a no formation of tertary complex mechanism?
Asparate aminotransferase, uses a double displacement reaction
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What is a double displacement reaction?
Substrates bounce on and off the enzyme
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What happens when you take an amino group of an amino acid?
It becomes a ketoacid
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What notation is commonly used to show the mechanisms of enzyme reactions?
Clelend notation
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What is an allosteric enzyme?
Enzymes made up of many subunits
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What sites are on an allosteric enzyme?
Can contain many active sites, they have other sites that can be used for regulation
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What do the kinetics of an allosteric enzyme look like and why is this?
Because of cooperative binding
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What is cooperative binding?
One substance binds to an enzyme subunit causing a change in the acitve site of other sub units
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What is an example of an enzyme that uses cooperative binding?
Haemoglobin
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What factors affect the way that enzymes function?
Temperature pH Inhibition
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How does temperature affect enzyme functionality?
As temperature increases, molecule collisions increase As temperature increases, internal energy of molecule increases If temperature increases further the enzyme will denature
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How does pH affect enzyme functionality?
Changes charge of amino acids If the active amino acids change charge will stop working Extreme pH will denature the enzyme Also affects substrates
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What are the three types of inhibitors?
Competative inhibitor Non-competative inhibitor Uncompetative inhibitor
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What is a competative inhibitor?
Binds to the active site non covalently, competing with the substrate
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What do competative enzymes cause in terms of enzyme kinetics?
Decreased affinity (KM increase) vmax remains the same as increasing [substrate] can overcome it
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What does the best inhibitor look like and why?
The transition state because it binds better
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Why are there not a lot of transition state drugs?
The transition state is hard to determine
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What are non-competative inhibitors?
Bind to somewhere other than the active site non covalently
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What do non-competative inhibitors cause in terms of enzyme kinetics?
KM unchanged as substrate can still bind vmax decreases because cannot out compete the inhibitor
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What do inhibitors on a Lineweaver-Burk plot look like?
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What is an example of an irreversible inhibitor?
Cyanide (CN-)
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What does biological reactions occuring in pathways allow?
Regulation of a key step byt regulating the enzyme, often the first step
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What are the 2 main ways of regulating enzymes?
Allosteric enzymes Covalently modified enzymes
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What is feedback inhibition?
Build up of an end product inhibits an earlier enzyme
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What kind of inhibition do pathways often use?
Feedback inhibition
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What are allosteric effectors?
Cell metabolites that bind non covalently to a site on the enzyme that is not the active site
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What do effectors do to an enzyme structure?
Cause it to change
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What are the two types of effectors?
Inhibitor Activator
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What two models explain allosteric kinetics?
Concerted model Sequential model
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What does the concerted model state?
Sub units exist in two conformations (one binds well and the other doesn't) With no substance the enzyme flips between the two conformations All sub units must be in the same conformation (flip in concert)
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What are allosteric activators?
Bind somewhere other than the active site, locking the open conformation
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What are allosteric inhibitors?
Bind somewhere other than the active site, locking in the closed conformation
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What are the properties of the sequential model?
Substrate binding causes a change in one subunit Binding causes conformational change
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What is an example of a reversible covalent modificaiton that can inhibit an enzyme?
Being phosphorylated
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What are the two kinds of enzymes that catalyse the phosphorylation of an enzyme?
Protein kinases (adds phosphory group to a protein) Protein phophotases (removes phosphoryl group)
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What do multiple phosphorylation sites allow?
Fine control of an enzymes function, it is never completely off or on but is finely tuned
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What is a proprotein?
Enzymes existing as an inactive precurser protein
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What happens when the proprotein is cleaved of an enzyme?
Enzyme becomes active by proteases
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What kinds of enzymes often use proprotein for regulation?
Digestive enzymes
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What is proteolysis?
Process of breaking peptide bonds between amino acids
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What is a protease?
Enzymes that perform proeolysis (protein catabolism by hydrolysis of peptide bonds)

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