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1
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How can we regulate enzyme activity - short term regulation

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  • substrate and product concentration

- change in enzyme conformation ( eg allosteric regulation , covalent modification , proteolytic cleavage )

2
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How can we regulate enzyme activity - long term regulation

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  • change in protein synthesis

- change is rate of protein degradation

3
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What is allostery ?

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  • condition of an enzyme by which the structure and activity of an enzyme is remodelled due to a a molecule binding.
4
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Outline what it means by an allosteric enzyme being in a ‘T’ state

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  • the allosteric enzyme has a low activity , low affinity
5
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Outline what it means by an allosteric enzyme being in the R state

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  • the allosteric enzyme is in a high affinity , high activity state.
6
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What is an allosteric effector and give a possible example

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  • a molecule that binds to an allosteric region of an enzyme for example 2,3 bisphosphoglycerate to haemoglobin
7
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What is the role of phosphofructokinase -1

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  • a key enzyme regulator in glycosis
  • it catalyses the formation of fructose 1,6 bisphosphate from fructose-6-phosphate.
  • uses ATP to do this too.
8
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What type of enzyme is phosphofructosekinase?

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Allosteric enzyme

9
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How is phosphofructosekinase inhibited ?

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  • by high levels of ATP, CITRATE and H+
10
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How is phosphofructokinase activated ?

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  • by high levels of AMP
  • high levels of pi
  • high levels of fructose 2,6 bisphosphate
11
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What is an example of an allosteric effector for phosphofructokinase -1 ?

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Fructose 2,6-bisphosphate

12
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Why are cascades important ?

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  • allow metabolic reactions to occur quickly
13
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What is a kinase?

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An enzyme that catalyses the transfer of a phosphate group from ATP to a required molecule.

14
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What is a phosphatase

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An enzyme that removes a phosphate group from a protein

15
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What is the role and importance of phosphorylation

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  • process of introducing a phosphate group to a molecule
  • this in turn , activates , deactivates or modifies the function of a molecule.
  • this plays an important role in protein regulation.
16
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What is a zymogen?

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  • also known as a proenzyme

- it is an inactive precursor of an enzyme

17
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Give an example of a zymogen molecule

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  • PROthrombin is the inactivated precursor enzyme for thrombin.
  • PepsinoGEN is the zymogen form of the protein pepsin
18
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What is thrombin

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A clotting enzyme

19
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Describe the structure of prothrombin

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    • an I active form of thrombin
  • the serine protease function ( the thrombin part) is contained in the C-terminal
  • the two Kringle domains help keep prothrombin in the inactive form.
  • Gla domains target prothrombin to appropriate sites for its activation.
20
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What is the role of the GLa residues on prothrombin?

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  • additional of COOH groups to glutamate residues to for, carboxyglutamate which allows interaction with sites of damage and brings together clotting factors.
21
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How is prothrombin converted into thrombin !

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  • enzymatic proteolytic cleavage of two sites on prothrombin which releases serine protease ( thrombin )
22
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What is the role of thrombin?

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An enzyme that converts fibrinogen big molecule into insoluble fibrin fibres

23
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How is fibrinogen converted to form fibrin?

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  • proteolytic cleavage of the fibrinogen molecule to form fibrin which aggregates to form clots by thrombin.
24
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RETULATION OF CLOTTING PROCESS :

What are the two ways we can stop the clotting process ?

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1) Digestion of clotting factors by protein C ( an inactive precursor). Protein C is only activated by thrombin binding to the endothelial receptor.
2) dilution of clotting factors by blood flow and removal by liver.

25
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Defects in protein C can cause what type of disease?

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Thrombotic disease ( blood clot in a blood vessel )

26
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Give two another examples of how the clotting process is regulated

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1) specific inhibitors for example antithrombin 111 (AT3) which is enhanced by heparin binding which inactivates thrombin - a major clotting factor.
2) fibrinolysis

27
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Fibrolysis

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  • a method of regulation used to remove a clot.
  • this is where plasminogen ( an inactive precursor) is converted into plasmin. This process is activated by streptokinase and t-pa.
  • plasmin enzyme then degrades fibrin clots into fibrin fragments that are later removed by the kidney/liver.