Lecture 10: Redox Reactions and Glycolysis Flashcards
What is end product inhibition?
When the end product of a metabolic pathway is the allosteric inhibitor, that binds to and inhibits the first enzyme of the metabolic pathway.
What is competitive inhibition?
-When a molecule that looks similar to a substrate binds to the active site and blocks the binding of the substrate that is meant to bind to the active site.
What does competitive inhibition do?
- Inhibits the catalysis of the substrate
When does competitive inhibition occur?
When you take DRUGS
What is allosteric regulation?
-When a regulatory molecule binds to an enzyme on a spot other than the active site and induces a conformational change to the enzyme preventing it from catalyzing reactions further
Why is allosteric regulation more effective than competitive inhibition?
-If you have an enzyme with allosteric inhibition you only need one inhibitor per enzyme. Also molecules can be a variety of shapes and do not need to replicate the shape of the substrate.
- With competitive inhibition you need the same number of competitive inhibitors as there are enzymes in order for it to stop catalyzing
Why is feedback inhibition good?
-Prevents the waste and over production of products
-Allows cells to control the amount of a specific compound
Why is it beneficial to regulate the first enzyme of the metabolic path?
The first enzyme is the one that is regulated to avoid a waste of resources or producing any unnecessary intermediates, also avoids waste of energy and resources
What is cooperativity with enzymes?
-Occurs with two or more identical enzyme subunits forming an enzyme complex
How does cooperativity with enzymes occur?
-When an inhibitor binds to the first enzyme and changes the first enzyme’s conformation this conformational change influences the other subunits of the enzyme to undergo a partial conformation change making the inhibitor of the other enzymes more easily able to bind .
-This helps rapidly shut down the enzyme
What type of curve does the cooperativity of enzymes produce?
A sigmoid curve
Why are the first enzymes in metabolic pathways usually made up of multiple subunits?
First enzymes are usually multiple subunits and regulated by cooperative allostery because when there are more subunits the enzyme is able to be inhibited more rapidly
What is the equation for the metabolism of glucose?
C6H12O6 + 6O2 —– 6CO2 + 6H2O + Free Energy
Why is glycolysis split into multiple steps?
-In order to harvest some of the energy in the form of ATP
-If it was done in one step the energy would all be released as heat
How much energy is harvested into ATP during glycolysis and how much is released as heat?
-About half of the energy that is released during the oxidation of glucose is converted into ATP
-The other half is still released as heat
What is the heat released from glycolysis used for?
-To help drive each step of glycolysis
What is the most important reaction in glycolysis?
Redox reaction
What is reduction?
molecules gains an electron or hydrogen molecule