Enzymes as Catalysts

Question 1

central role

Answer 1

• carry out almost all chemistry required by living systems
• permit a wide range of chemical reactions in a narrow set of conditions
• allow rapid, efficient adjustments to environmental conditions

Question 2

medical aspects

Answer 2

• disease traceable to enzymatic defects
• use of enzyme activities in diagnosis
• drugs as enzyme inhibitors
• therapeutic administration of enzymes
• design of therapeutic enzymes and enzyme inhibitors

Question 3

general characteristics of enzymes

Answer 3

• tremendous enhancement of reaction rate
• reactions occur under relatively mild conditions
• extreme specificity
• capacity for regulation

Question 4

enzyme kinetics experiment

Answer 4

• experiment-initial velocity at varying [s]
• model
• combine
• predict with constants