Regulating enzyme function Flashcards
What are the different types of regulation of enzyme activity?
Short term
Long term
What are the different types of short term regulation of enzyme activity?
Changing substrate and product concentration
Changing enzyme conformation
How can enzyme conformation be changed?
Allosteric regulation
Proteolytic cleavage
Chemical modification
What are the different types of long term regulation?
Change in rate of protein synthesis
Change in rate of protein degradation
What are isoenzymes?
Catalyse same reaction
but have different structure and hence different kinetic properties
What is an example of changing product concentration regulating enzyme activity?
Product inhibition
What is product inhibition?
Product of a reaction inhibits the forward reaction
What are the two different states of allosteric enzymes?
Tense state, T state
Relaxes state, R state
What is the affinity of allosteric enzymes in the T state for their substrate?
Low affinity
What is the affinity of allosteric enzymes in the R state for their substrate?
High affinity
What shape does a graph of x axis-substrate concentration against y axis-reaction velocity for allosteric enzymes take?
Sigmoid curve
Why does a graph of x axis-substrate concentration against y axis-reaction velocity for allosteric enzymes take a sigmoid curve shape?
Enzyme initially in T state
binding of substrate is hard
After first substrate has bound, enzyme converted to R state
binding of substrates is easy
What do allosteric activators do?
Bind to enzyme
increase proportion of enzymes in R state
What do allosteric inhibitors do?
Bind to enzyme
increase proportion of enzymes in T state
What is an example of a chemical group commonly added to/removed from enzymes?
Phosphate group