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Topic 4 - Enzymes Flashcards

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What is the relevance of enzymes in medicine?

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  • Defects in enzymes underlie many diseases
  • 30-40% of drug targets are enzymes
  • Enzymes can be drugs themselves
  • Enxyme activity can be diagnostic/prognostic
  • Enzymes are tools in diagnostic/prognostic tests
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What are enzymes?

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  • Biological catalysts of chemical reactions
  • Specific action on particular biochemical compounds (substrates)
  • Nearly all are proteins
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What do enzymes do?

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Increase the rate at which the reaction equilibrium is reached, but do NOT shift the position of equilibrium

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How do enzymes increase rate of reaction?

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  • By providing catalytically competent groups for a specific reaction mechanism
  • By binding substrates such that their orientation is optimised for the reaction
  • By preferentially binding and stabilising the transition state(s) of the reaction
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What is the active site of an enzyme?

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The region of the enzyme at which substrate binding and conversion to product takes place.

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What are the features of an active site?

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  • 3-dimensional space comprising crucial amino acid residues
  • May represent only a small part of the protein structure
  • Binds substrate via multiple weak interactions
  • Provides substrate specificity because of its unique 3D arrangement of atoms
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What is trypsin?

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Proteolytic digestive enzyme
Three key amino acids in active site, but far apart in amino acid sequence
Active site is ‘niche’ for binding substrate

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What is the equilibrium constant, K?

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What are the three key amino acids making up the active site of trypsin?

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They are far apart on the ppt chain:
His57
Asp102
Ser195

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What is the michaelis-menten model?

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E+S<>ES>E+P

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What is the Michaelis constant, Km?

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K1

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What are the factors affecting enzyme catalysed reaction rates?

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  • Substrate concentration
  • Enzyme concentration
  • Temperature
  • pH
  • Inhibitors
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What is a cofactor?

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a substance (other than the substrate) whose presence is essential for the activity of an enzyme

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What are some major cofactor minerals?

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Mg2+ and Ca2+ and trace

elements such as Cu2+, Zn2+, Fe2+/3+, Mn2+ and Mo4+

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What is the role of metal ions as cofactors?

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  • Can be part of active site and/or be involved in electrostatic substrate binding (Zn2+ in carbonic anhydrase, Mg2+ in kinases).
  • Can as redox agents (Fe2+/3+ in cytochrome p450s).
  • Can regulate activity of enzymes (Ca2+ in calpain).
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What cofactor does carbonic anhydrase require?

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Zn2+

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What is the function of Zn2+ as a cofactor?

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Zn2+ in carbonic anhydrase active site binds to H2O and activates it for reaction with CO2

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What is the role of NADH and FADH2?

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To carry electrons (Recusing power)

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What is the role of Coenzyme A?

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To carry acetyl units

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What is the role of Biotin and Thiamine pyrophosphate?

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To carry CO2 units bound to carboxylases

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Which water soluble enzyme corresponds to coenzymes FAD and FMN?

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Riboflavin (B2)

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Which water soluble enzyme corresponds to coenzymes NAD+ and NADP+?

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Niacin

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Which water soluble enzyme corresponds to coenzyme Thiamine pyrophosphate?

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Thiamine (B1)

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Which water soluble enzyme corresponds to coenzyme Biotinylated carboxylases?

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Biotin

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Which water soluble enzyme corresponds to coenzyme cobamide coenzymes?
Cobalamin (B12)
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Which water soluble enzyme corresponds to coenzyme tetrahydrofolate?
Folic acid
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Which water soluble enzyme corresponds to coenzyme Pyridoxal phosphate?
Pyridoxal (B6)
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Which water soluble enzyme corresponds to coenzyme A?
Pantothenic acid
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What is pellagra caused by?
Niacin/Tryptophan deficiency
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What is the presentation of pellagra?
Dementia, diarrhea and dermatitis
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What is the ethanol to acetaldehyde reaction catalysed by?
Alcohol dehydrogenase
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What is the acetaldehyde to acetate reaction catalysed by?
Acetaldehyde dehydrogenase
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What is reduction?
- gaining of electrons (hydrogen) by one of the atoms | - loss of oxygen
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What is Oxidation?
- loss of electrons (hydrogen) by one atom | - gain of oxygen
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What can Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6DPH) deficiency cause?
Metabolic defects! - X-linked recessive; most carriers asymptomatic - The enzyme produces a large proportion of the body’s NADPH needed to drive biosynthesis of nucleic acids, lipids etc.
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What symptoms can G6DPH deficiency cause?
- Haemolytic crisis - Jaundice - Can lead to brain damage (kernicterus) in infants
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What can trigger a G6DPH deficiency crisis?
- Drugs - Foods - Infections
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What does the oxidation of G6P by G6PDH generate?
NADPH
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What is the role of NADPH?
- Fuel for biosynthesis - needed to make glutathione, which repairs oxidatively-damaged cell membranes - RBCs are dependent on G6DPH to make NADPH
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What does the pentose phosphate pathway generate?
- Ribose 5-phosphate>>> nucleic acids | - NADPH>>>>Fuel for biosynthesis
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What is 6-MP?
- a prodrug that is differentially metabolised | - metabolism by TPMT results in inactivation
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What is the role of Thiopurine methyl transferase (TPMT) in adverse response to cancer chemotherapy?
It catalyzes the S-methylation of 6-mercaptopurine (6-MP), azathioprine (AZA), and thioguanine to inactivate these drugs, which are used for treating leukemia and autoimmune diseases. So TPMT deficiency is needed for these drugs to be correctly metabolised.
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What are the levels of control of enzymes?
1. Inhibition (reversible or irreversible) 2. Feedback regulation 3. Covalent modification 4. Proteolytic activation
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What are serine protease inhibitors (serpins)?
a family of proteins that antagonize the activity of serine proteases
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What are some examples of serpins?
- Alpha1-antitrypsin (a.k.a. anti-elastase) - Pancreatic trypsin inhibitor - Antithrombin III
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What does Alpha1-antitrypsin do?
Prevents protease from attacking tissue
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What does pancreatic trypsin inhibitor do?
Controls activity of digestive enzyme
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What does antithrombin III do?
Switches off blood clotting system
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What are some examples of feedback regulation?
- Energy metabolism pathways - NADP+ on G6PDH - Purine biosynthesis - Amino acid biosynthesis
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What is protein phosphorylation?
- a universal mechanism of enzyme modulation - gamma-phosphate of ATP is transferred to amino acid residues - Enzymes are phosphorylated by other enzymes, called protein kinases - Phosphate groups are removed by phosphatases - Charged group induces conformational change in the enzyme - Key processes in cell signaling by growth factors (hormones, cytokines)
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How is zymogen/pro-enzyme activated?
By proteolysis
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What is proteolysis?
Irreversible activation of enzyme after removal of part of peptide chain
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Where is proteolysis used?
- Digestive enzymes (trypsin, chymotrypsin) | - Blood-clotting system
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What does proteolysis require?
tight control by natural inhibitors (for example antitrypsin, antithrombin III)
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What does proteolysis prevent?
- enzyme becoming active in the wrong place/wrong time | - eg. premature activation of digestive enzymes in the pancreas
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What is chymotrypsin?
- Digestive enzyme - Mature active protein has 3 polypeptide chains linked by disulfide bonds - Zymogen precursor is a single polypeptide
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What is the connection between chymotrypsin, trypsin and elastase?
evolved from common ancestor
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What is trypsin?
- Made as zymogen called trypsinogen - Removal of amino acids 1-6 cause activation - causes small conformational change - Initial activation by enteropeptidase, a duodenal enzyme
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What is the role of proteases in the blood clotting cascade?
- Massive amplification of initial signal - Complex interactions in vivo between intrinsic and extrinsic pathways - Deficiency in any one factor can result in clotting or bleeding disorders - Many blood Factors are serine proteases
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What is antithrombin III?
- A serine protease inhibitor | - Controls clotting by binding tightly to thrombin and serine protease factors
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What is the pathway of lysis of blood clots by plasmin?
- TPA adheres to clot and binds plasminogen - Serine protease activity of TPA cleaves plasminogen to active plasmin - Plasmin digests fibrin clot to small peptides
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What is TPA?
Tissue-type plasminogen activator - plays a role in blood clotting
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Which drugs would be administered in coronary thrombosis?
CLOT BUSTERS//thrombolytics - Recombinant TPA - Streptokinases (eg. alteplase)

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