Lecture 9-10: Theisen Flashcards
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Oxioreductases
Transfer electrons from a donor to an acceptor
Transferases
Transfer a functional group between molecules
Isomerases
Rearrange/isomerize molecule
Intramolecular
Lyases
“Synthases” add or remove atoms to or from a double bond (from water, ammonia, CO2)
Ligases
Synthetases-form bonds w/ hydrolysis of ATP
Hydrolases
Cleave bonds via the addition of water-hydrolysis
Transfers functional groups to water
Catalysts
Increasing the rate of chemical reactions
How do enzymes affect energy of activation?
By forming an enzyme-substrate complex—lowering the energy of activation
Enzymes get substrates to their:
Transition state
Uncatalyzed rate w/ carbonic anhydrase
Significantly slower [ 10-1 vs 10^6] -1,000,000 X / sec
Sir Archibald Edward Garrod
1st making connection btw disease and fundamental errors in biochem. Rxn’s. [alkaptonuria] coined the term inborn errors of metabolism
2 Reaction drivers:
Mass action [Le Chatelier’s Principle]
Coupled reactions [input of energy]
MAss action / Le Chatelier’s
Increase in [ ] of products= more reactants
Increase [ ] of reactants = more products
Opposite direction from adjustment made
Coupled reactions [input of energy]
Coupling rxn’s is possible if they share a common intermediate
What increases rxn velocity?
Enzymes
What indicates whether the rxn will proceed w/ or w/o input of energy? Spontaneous
Gibbs free energy deltaG
What Gibbs energy is favored?
Negative
Oxidation-reduction reactions
Electron donor will reduce the electron acceptor (reducing and oxidizing agents)
Acid-base rxn’s
Weak acid dissociates in water==releases proton and conjugate base
Weak base combines w/ protons in water. Forming its conjugate acid
Characteristic of enzymes r/t specificity
3D structure and active site.
Specificity of binding depends on the precisely defined arrangement of atoms in the active site.
Where does substrate bind to enzyme?
Active site
Enzyme substrate complex formation: 2 types
Lock n key and induced fit
Example of enzyme specificity:
proteases cleave peptides btw carboxyl and amino group.
What limits the reaction rate?
Substrate occupying all the available catalytic sites of enzymes
Increasing substrate [ ], reaction rates hit a Vmax.