Enzymes (Chapter 6) Flashcards

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What Vitalism?

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The belief that living things are different from non-living things because they contain some non-physical element

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How do Enzymes contribute to Human Health?

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  • Causes of diseases:
    Gain or loss or change of a function of an enzyme

-Therapeutic targets:
Target the activity of specific enzymes

-Indicators of Disease:
Biomarkers to inform disease susceptibility, prognosis and treatments

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3
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What is Proteolysis?

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Hydrolysis of a peptide bond

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4
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The _______ of an enzyme is due to the ______ of the ______ with the ______

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Specificity
Precise interaction
Substrate
Enzyme

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5
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_______ is from the ______ of the enzyme

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Precision

3D Structure

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6
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What are the 6 Major classes of Enzymes?

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Oxidoreductases
Transferases
Hydrolases
Lysases
Isomerases
Ligases
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7
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The Transfer of electrons between molecules

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Oxidoreductases

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8
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Transfer functional groups between molecules

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Transferases

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9
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Cleaves molecules with water and transfers functional groups to water

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Hydrolases

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Adds atoms or Functional groups to a double bond or removes them to form a double bond

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Lysases

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Move Functional groups within a molecule to make isomeric forms

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Isomerases

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12
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Joins 2 molecules powered by ATP hydrolysis

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Ligases

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13
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C-C bond
C-S bond
C-O bond
C-N bond
are made by what?
A

Ligases by condensation coupled to ATP cleavage

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Some enzymes alone are fully active. What do enzymes that aren’t fully active require?

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Co-Factors and Co-Enzymes

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What is a Co-Factor?

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Inorganic ions

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What is a Co-Enzyme?

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Complex organic molecules

like vitamins

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17
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What is a Prosthetic Group?

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The association of Co-Factors and Co-Enzymes with an enzyme

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What is the difference between the association of a Co-Factor and the association of a Co-Enzyme?

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The degree of association

19
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Different enzymes that use the same co-enzyme will usually do what?

A

Perform the same type of reaction

20
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What do Catalysts do?

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Lowers amount of energy needed for the reaction to proceed

Speed up equilibrium

Recycled to participate in another reaction

21
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Why are enzymes better than Chemical Catalysts?

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Speed: Enzymes are faster

Conditions: Function at certain physiological conditions, a lot simple conditions

Specificity: High Degree of specificity, including stereospecificty, more specific

Regulation: Many enzymes are responsive to the needs of the cell and organism

22
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What is the Circe Effect?

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Some enzymes are able to catalyze reactions faster by diffusion control limits, enzymes are drawing the substrates towards them

23
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What reaction in the Circe Effect is called what?

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Electrostatic Reactions

24
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______-_______=_______

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Enzyme-cofactor=apoenzyme

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Free Energy changes provides information about what?
Spontaneity, not rate of reaction
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What do enzyme facilitate?
The formation of the transition state
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What alters the equilibrium of chemical reactions?
Free Energy Difference
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What is an Active site?
3D cleft formed from groups that come from different parts of the polypeptide chain
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Describe what an Active Site is and what occurs
- Small compared to the rest of the enzyme - Unique Micro environments - Substrates bound to enzyme by multiple weak interactions
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In an Active Site, what does the Specificity of binding depend on and what types of binds occur?
- Arrangement of atoms in the binding site | - Either induced fit or conformation selection
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What is the relationship between rate of reaction and activation energy?
Inverse and Exponential
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-ΔG
Spontaneous | Exergonic
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+ΔG
Non-Spontaneous | Endergonic
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ΔG=0
Equilibrium
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What increases the rate of reaction?
Enzymes
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What occurs during Substrate binding?
- Reduces entropy (decrease freedom of rotation) - Removes water to expose reactive groups - Aligns reactive groups with substrate - Distortion of Substrate - Induced fitting
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What occurs during Transition State Stabilization?
- Increase interaction - Stabilizes the Transition State - Enzyme distorts the substance forcing it toward transition state - Bind enzymes to the transition states
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What is a Transition state analog?
Stable compounds whose structures resembles unstable transition states
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What is the Chemical Effect?
Enzymes can act upon substrate to promote formation of the product
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What must an enzyme have during the Chemical Effect?
Polar, ionizable side chains, also anions and cations of amino acids
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What occurs during Acid/Base Catalysis?
Reaction acceleration by transfer of a proton, often Histidine
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What occurs during Covalent Catalysis?
Forms covalent link to enzyme | Regenerate the original enzyme