Enzymes And Vitamins Flashcards
This is the process of chemical and physical change which goes on continually in the living organism
Metabolism
The acceleration of a chemical reaction by some substance which itself undergoes no permanent chemical change.
Catalysis
The catalysts of biochemical reactions are
Enzymes
are composed of long chains of amino acids that have folded into a very specific three-dimensional shape which contains an active site.
Enzymes
a region on the surface of an enzyme to which substrates will bind and catalyzes a chemical reaction.
Active site
a molecule that an enzyme reacts
Substrate
Enzymes have molecular weights ranging from
10,000 to 2,000,000
are macromolecules that catalyze chemical reactions in the body.
Enzymes
Enzymes catalyze reactions by weakening?
chemical bonds
Has a unique 3d shape
Enzymes
Each enzyme has a unique 3-D shape, including a surface groove called on
Active site
are enzymes made of ribonucleic acids.
Ribozymes
catalyzes only the hydrolysis of urea and not that of other amides, even closely related ones
Urease
an enzyme that cleaves the peptide bonds of protein molecules—but not every peptide bond, only those on the carboxyl side of lysine and arginine residues.
Trypsin
specifically catalyzes the hydrolysis of only the last amino acid on a protein chain-the one at the C-terminal end.
carboxypeptidase
They catalyze the hydrolysis of any triglyceride, but they still do not affect carbohydrates or proteins
Lipases
hydrolyzes the amino acid L-arginine (the naturally occurring form) to a compound called L-ornithine and urea but has no effect on its mirror image, D-arginine.
arginase
earliest studies were performed in 1835 by the Swedish chemist who termed their chemical action catalytic?
Jon Jakob Berzelius
earliest studies were performed in 1835 by the Swedish chemist Jon Jakob Berzelius who termed their?
chemical action catalytic
What year the first enzyme was obtained in pure form?
1926
In 1926, the first enzyme was obtained in pure form, a feat accomplished by?
James B. Sumner
He was able to isolate and crystallize the enzyme urease from the jack bean.
James B. Sumner
James B. Sumner work was to earn him the?
1947 Nobel Prize
- They discovered a complex procedure for isolating pepsin.
- Shared the 1947
Nobel Prize with Sumner.
John H. Northrop and Wendell M.
Stanley
speeds up the removal of hydrogen from lactate
lactate dehydrogenase
catalyzes the hydrolysis of phosphate ester bonds under acidic conditions.
Acid phosphatase
the names of most enzymes end in
-ase
Some enzymes, however, have older names, which were assigned before their actions were clearly understood. Among these are? ( all enzymes of the digestive tract. )
pepsin, trypsin, and chymotrypsin
catalyze oxidations and reductions
EC 1 - oxidoreductases
catalyze the transfer of a group of atoms, such as from one molecule to another
EC 2 - transferases
catalyze hydrolysis reactions
EC 3 - hydrolases
catalyze the addition of two groups to a double bond or the removal of two groups from adjacent atoms to create a double bond
EC 4 - lyases
catalyze isomerization reactions
EC 5 - isomerases
catalyze the joining of two molecules
EC 6 - ligases
an enzyme that oxidizes a substrate by transferring one or more hydrides (H-) to an acceptor, usually NAD+/NADP+ or a flavin coenzyme FAD or FMN.
Dehydrogenase
tricarboxylic acid cycle, (TCA cycle),
also called?
Krebs cycle and citric acid cycle
The second stage of cellular respiration. the three-stage process by which living cells break down organic fuel molecules in the presence of oxygen to harvest the energy they need to grow and divide.
tricarboxylic acid cycle, (TCA cycle)
An enzyme that catalyzes an oxidation-reduction reaction involving molecular oxygen (O2) as the electron acceptor.
Oxidase
An enzyme that catalyzes a type of reaction between an amino acid and alpha-keto acid.
Transaminase
an enzyme that transfers phosphate groups from high-energy molecules, such as ATP, to specific substrates.
Kinase
a water-soluble enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of ester chemical bonds in water-soluble substrates. It helps your body digest fats.
Lipase
- an enzyme that breaks starch down into sugar.
- an enzyme, or special protein, that helps you digest carbohydrates
Amylase
an enzyme that catalyzes (increases reaction rate or “speeds up”) proteolysis, breaking down proteins into smaller polypeptides or single amino acids, and spurring the formation of new protein products.
Peptidase
enzymes that catalyze decarboxylation of amino acids, beta-keto acids, and alpha-keto acids.
Decarboxylases
an enzyme that catalyzes the structural rearrangement of isomers.
Isomerase
an enzyme that catalyzes the shifting/movement of a functional group from one position to another within the same molecule.
Mutase
Other enzymes contain nonprotein portions called?
cofactors
The protein (polypeptide) portion of the enzyme is called an?
apoenzyme
Organic cofactors are called
coenzymes
Enzyme along with its
cofactor?
Holoenzyme
When cofactor Is
Removed Enzyme is?
Apoenzyme
What vitamins are important group of coenzymes which are essential to the activity of many enzymes.
B vitamins
Another important coenzyme which is part of several oxidoreductases as well as part of hemoglobin.
heme
- The compound on which the enzyme works, and whose reaction it speeds up, is called the?
substrate
usually binds to the enzyme surface while it undergoes the reaction.
Substrate
The substrate binds to a specific portion of the enzyme during the reaction, called the?
active site
is any process that initiates or increases the action of an enzyme. It can be the simple addition of a cofactor to an apoenzyme or the cleavage of a polypeptide chain of a proenzyme.
Activation
A process that makes an active enzyme less active or inactive.
Inhibition
bind to the active site of the enzyme surface, thereby preventing the binding of substrate.
Competitive inhibitors
bind to some other portion of the enzyme surface and sufficiently alter the tertiary structure of the enzyme so that its catalytic effectiveness is eliminated. That is, the enzyme cannot catalyze while the inhibitor is bound.
Noncompetitive inhibitors
The nonprotein part of an enzyme necessary for its catalytic function.
Cofactor
A nonprotein organic molecule, frequently a B vitamin, that acts as a cofactor.
Coenzyme
A three-dimensional cavity of the enzyme with specific chemical properties that enable it to accommodate the substrate.
Active site
A compound that binds to an enzyme and lowers its activity.
Inhibitor
This person suggested that catalysts speed up reactions by combining with the substrate to form some kind of intermediate compound. In an enzyme- catalysed reaction, this intermediate is called the enzyme substrate complex.
Arrhenius
Arrhenius suggested that catalysts speed up reactions by combining with the substrate to form some kind of intermediate compound. In an enzyme- catalysed reaction, this intermediate is called the?
enzyme-substrate complex.
This model assumes that the enzyme is a rigid three-dimensional body.
The surface that contains the active site has a restricted opening into which only one kind of substrate can fit, just as only the proper key can fit exactly into a lock and turn it open.
lock-and-key model
A model explaining the specificity of enzyme action by comparing the active site to a lock and the substrate to a key.
Lock-and-key model
He introduced the induced-fit model,
Daniel Koshland
the changes occurring in the shape of the cavity upon substrate binding to the changes in the shape of a glove when a hand is inserted.
induced-fit model
forms covalent or very strong noncovalent bonds. The site of attack is an amino acid group that participates in the normal enzymatic reaction.
Irreversible inhibitor
forms weak, noncovalent bonds that readily dissociate from an enzyme. The enzyme is only inactive when the inhibitor is present.
Reversible inhibitor
A survey of known active sites of enzymes shows that five amino acids participate in the active sites in more than 65% of all cases. They are, in order of their dominance, what are those amino acids?
His > Cys > Asp > Arg > Glu
before A and B can become C and D, they must pass through a?
transition state
The energy required to climb this hill is the?
activation energy
is a protease, an enzyme that cleaves peptide bonds as we saw with trypsin.
papain
helps attract the peptide and hold it in the correct orientation via hydrogen bonding
histidine
The sulfur on the cysteine side chain performs a type of reaction called a?
nucleophilic attack
This enzyme catalyzes the transfer of the phosphate group from phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP) to ADP, an important step in glycolysis.
pyruvate kinase