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Lecture 7 Enzyme kinetics Flashcards

1
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How does increasing substrate impace reaction velocity

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Increasing substrate soncentration will increase reaction rate until Vmax is reached

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What is Vmax

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  • It is the maximum velocity at which an enzymes catalyses a reaction
  • Once reaction reaches Vmax further increase in substrate concentration does not affect rate of reaction
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What happens at Vmax

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  • The enzyme becomes fully saturated
  • Maximum rate of product production
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4
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What is the equation for enzyme reactions

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What kind of Curve do we get if we plot initail velocity over substrate concentration

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Hyperbolic curve

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What is Km

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KM is 50% of Vmax

  • The Concentration of subtrate which allows the enzyme to reach half of Its maximum velocity
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7
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What is K1

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The Forward rate constant for enzyme association with substrate

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What is K-1

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Backwards rate constant for enzyme dissociation from subbstrate

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What is K2

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Froward rate constant for enzyme conversion of substrate to product

  • This step is Irreversible
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10
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Why does this reaction not go S + E —> P

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Because the Activation energy barrier (now low) makes the enzyme substrate complex unstable so it can do forwards or backwards

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What is the Equation for Michaelis constant KM

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How is KM and Vmax measured?

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Measuring the intial reaction velocity V0 at a known substrate concentration and then repeating at increased substrate concentration

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What is the Machaelis menten equation

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  • Describes Rate of catalysis at a function of substrate concentration
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What can the Mechaelis menten equation be turned into

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  • A straight line equation Y= mx+c
  • Used to accuratley determined Vmas and Km
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What is the lineweaver Burk Plot

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  • A double reciprocal plot of the hyperbolic curve
  • 1/V = Km/vMax . 1/[S] + 1/vmax
  • X axis = 1/-KM
  • Y axis = 1/vmax
  • Gradient = KM/vmax
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16
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What does a Low kM indicate

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  • That enzyme needs ony a little substrate to work at its Half maximum velocity
  • More effecient
17
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What does a High KM indicate

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  • Enzyme needs alot of substrate to work at half-maximum velocity
  • Less effecient
18
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Clinical Examples of why Km matters

19
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What is Reversible Inhibiton

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Orthosteric inhibition

Allosteric inhibtion

20
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What is Reversible competative inhibition

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inhibitor binds to the active site of enzymes and blocks substrate acess

  • Orthosteric inhibition
21
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What is reversible non-competative inhibition

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Inhibitor binding to a site other than a catalytic centre

inhibits enzymes by chaning its conformation

  • Allosteric inhibition
22
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What is Irreversible non-competative inhibition

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Usually involves formation or breakage of covalent bonds in the enzyme complex

  • Cannot be reversed
23
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What does the linweaver Burk plot look like with a competative inhibitor

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  • Km Varies - (x-axis changes)
  • Vmax does not change (Y-intercept is the same)
24
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give an example of Competative inhibition in Clinic

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Methanol poisoning

  • Enzyme Alcohol dehydrogenase has a Km 20% greater for Ethanol compared to methanol
  • Give patients 40% ethanol - which will increase the enzymes Km for its substrate - means more methanol will be required for enzyme to break it down and form harmful products
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What does the lineweaver burk plot look like with a non-competative inhibitor

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  • Vmax varies (y-intercept changes)
  • Km remains the same (x-intercept in same)
26
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How do enzymes carried out Feed-back inhibition

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  • Carried out by Allosteric regulation
  • Methabolic pathways include many enzmyes being formed and making a final product
  • This product can then bind to the allosteric site of an enzyme in the begining of a pathway
  • Which prevents the chain reaction from continueing
  • Simillary if the final product is in low levels then enzymes can continue to make products again
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Summary

28
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Do Allosteric enzymes follow mechaelis menten kenetics

29
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How does the curve of an Allosteric enzyme differ from normal enzymes

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  • Allosteric enzyme = Sigmoid curve

Shows co-operative behaviour

  • Normal enzyme = hyperbolic curve
30
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How do allosteric activators and inhibitors effect binding of enzymes

31
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Give an example of allosteric regulation

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Oxygen binding to Haemoglobin

Positive co-operativity

32
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what factors cause the curve of oxygen-haemoglobin binding to change

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  • H+ ions
  • CO2
  • 2,3 Bisphosphoglycerate - side product of glycolysis
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