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Metabolism

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The sum of all the chemical reactions that occurs within a living cell/tissue/organism

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What is a metabolic pathway?

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A series of steps beginning with a molecule (metabolite) with a different enzyme that catalyses each step

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What is a catabolic pathway?

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They release energy by breaking down complex molecules into simple compounds

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What is an example of a catabolic pathway?

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Cellular respiration (sugar broken down to CO2 and water in the presence of oxygen)

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What are anabolic pathways?

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They consue energy to build complex molecules from simpler compounds

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What is an example of an anabolic pathway?

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Amino acid synthesis

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What are the advantages of multi-step pathways?

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  1. Multiple points to control how fast the reactions occur
  2. Ability to divert ‘pathway intermediates’ to other pathways to do other things
  3. Changes to metabolism through evolution
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All the pathways are interconnected by what?

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Metabolic webs/grids

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What are the forms of energy?

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Kinetic energy
Thermal energy
Potential energy
Chemical energy

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What is the 1st Law of Thermodynamics?

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Energy cannot be created or destroyed, only converted or transformed

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What is the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics?

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Entropy increases in isolated systems

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Increase in entropy can cause a process to proceed..

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Spontaneously (doesn’t require energy) (does not mean instantaneously)

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Are energy transformations 100% efficient?

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No
Some energy is lost as heat

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Do we need a continuous input of energy to keep order in the system?

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Yes (ex. eating)

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What is free energy?

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The amount of energy in the system

Reactants have an initial free energy state

Products have a final free energy state

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Does breaking bonds take or release energy?

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Take

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Does forming bonds take or release energy?

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Release

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Does metabolism reach equilibrium?

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NO (the cell would be dead)

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What are the 3 kinds of work the cell does?

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  1. Chemical work
  2. Transport work
  3. Mechanical work
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What is broken by hydrolysis to release energy in ATP?

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The P-O bond

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Why do enzymes speed up reactions?

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Because they are catalysts

Enzymes bind the reactant molecules so that they put stress of specific bonds of the reactant which lowers the activation energy making the bonds easier to break

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What is energy coupling?

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Using energy from an exergonic reaction to drive an endergonic process

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What is activation energy?

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The energy required to get the molecule ready to break

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What speeds up the rate of a specific reaction without being consumed themselves or changing the overall G of the reaction?

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Enzymes

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What is the reactant molecule?

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The enzyme’s substrate

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What is an enzyme-substrate complex?

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When an enzyme binds to the substrate

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What has a specific 3D configuration to bind to the substrate?

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The R-groups in the active site

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What is the induced-fit model?

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A theory that suggests that the active site and substrate are not a perfect match initially, but rather the substrate induces a change in shape in the enzyme

(shaking hands)

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The rate at which the enzyme facilitates the reaction is determined by?

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The concentration of the substate (more substrate = faster reaction to a limit)

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Enzyme shape dictates?

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Function

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How does the environment in which the enzyme occurs affects its activity?

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Increased temperature can speed up a reaction until it denatures

pH can denature a protein (proteins have differences in their optimal pH)

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What are cofactors?

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Helpers for initiate catalysis

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Drugs and toxins work by?

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Inhibiting enzymes

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What is substrate inhibition?

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A competitive inhibitor molecules resembles the substrate and binds to the active site so that the actual substrate can’t bind, slowing the rate of the reaction

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What is feedback inhibition?

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The inhibitor molecule binds elsewhere on the enzyme, changing the enzyme shape and the active site cannot bind with the substrate

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What is allosteric regulation?

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Occurs in enzymes with quaternary structures where each subunit has an active site

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What is cooperativity?

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A substrate binds to one unit, which stabilizes the active state on the other units (ATP and ADP regulate enzymes in cellular respiration this way)

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What is allosteric activation?

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A regulatory molecule binds to a regulatory site which stabilizes the active state

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What is allosteric inactivation?

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A regulatory molecule binds to a regulatory site which stabilizes the inactive state

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