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Thousands of chemical reaction reactions proceeding
very rapidly at any given time within living cells
Intracellular Location of
enzymes :
presented the metabolic pathway
in each cell compartment.
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Nomenclature
Classification of enzymes
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1. Oxidoreductases: catalyze oxidation and reduction reactions. Use
oxygen as an electron acceptor but do not incorporate it into the
substrate.
Examples:
Dehydrogenases: Use molecules other than oxygen (e.g, NAD+ ) as an
electron acceptor.
Hexokinase
5. Amino acid residues at the active site are called catalytic residues and
catalysis occurs at this site.
20 Models are postulated to explain substrate binding to the enzyme:
First Model:
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Second Model: Induced Fit Model:
The binding site is not fully formed. Binding of the substrate to the
enzyme will induce a conformational change in the enzyme directing
appropriate amino acids to the active site. Some times, these changes
are accompanied by changes in the substrate to provide a perfect fit
for substrate binding and catalysis.
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Activation Energy
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Activation Energy
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Activation Energy
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Activation Energy
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Factors affecting enzyme activity
1) Temperature.
2) pH
3) Substrate concentration.
4) Enzyme concentration.
5) Coenzymes and cofactors.
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Pepsin pH 2
Acid phosphatase 4-5
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i. Coenzymes are heat stable and mostly derived from vitamins.
Effect of Metals:
Metal cofactors may bound reversibly or tightly to enzymes.
Velocity (V)
Vmax
C
Vmax /2
Vmax /2
B
Vmax /2
Vi A
Km
Substrate conc.[ S ]
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Reacted) increased to a maximum velocityVmax (point C) with no
subsequent increase.
Plotting the velocity of an enzyme catalyzed reaction at different
substrate concentration is demonstrated in the figure:
Point A represents the initial velocity; small number of enzymes is
occupied with the substrate [ES].
Point C represent maximal velocity (Vmax ); all free enzymes are
saturated with the substrate and present as [ES].
Point B half of the enzyme molecules are saturated with the
substrate, velocity is half maximal velocity (Vmax /2) at this enzyme
concentration. The substrate concentration required to produce half
maximal velocity of the enzyme catalyzed reaction is termed
Michaelis constant “Km ”.
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Michaelis-Menten kinetic theory of enzyme action
Michaelis-Menten formulated an equation which relates the rate of
enzyme (velocity) catalyzed reaction to substrate concentration:
Vmax /2 [ S ]
Vi =
Km + [S]
Where;
Vi –is the rate (or velocity) of the reaction.
Vmax –is the rate when the enzyme is fully saturated with substrate.
Km - Michaelis constant; is the substrate concentration at
which the reaction rate is half maximal velocity.
40 Lineweaver-Burk Plot
Represents a linear form of Michaelis-Menten equation and it requires
few points to define Km ( it is the method often used to determine Km
which is expressed as molarity or moles/L).
41 Importance of Km
1- Km is a constant for a particular enzyme under standardized
conditions.
Types of inhibitors:
1. Competitive inhibition.
2. Non-competitive inhibition.
3. Uncompetitive inhibition.
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Competitive inhibition:
Occurs at the substrate binding site.
A- Regulation by induction
Induction of synthesis of a particular enzyme.
The effector is called inducer (substrate, Hormone).
B-Regulation by repression:
Number of enzyme molecules decreased by repression.
The effector is called repressor.
2-Regulation of catalytic activity 53
Regulatory enzymes:
Control of metabolic pathway may be accomplished by modulation of
key enzymes---catalyse the first step of metabolic sequence (rate-
limiting step) that control the overall pathway.
A-Allosteric regulation:
Regulate key enzyme.
Allosteric enzymes oligomeric proteins (more than one subunit).
Allosteric enzymes posses 2 sites:
i-Catalytic site (active site).
ii- allosteric site-where allosteric modifier bind.
Binding causes conformational changes in the enzyme which can
either increase (positive allosteric modifier) or decrease (negative
allosteric modifier).
Feedback inhibition: 54
The end product of metabolic pathway results in allosteric
inhibition of the first enzyme in the pathway.
B-Covalent Modification 55
Covalent modification ----Addition of group to the enzyme by covalent
bond or removal of group by cleaving the covalent bond.
Target Enzymes
become active or
inactive
(covalent modification)
59 Enzymes in clinical medicine
LDH-5 M4 Muscles
Determination of
Glucose oxidase glucose estimation
Uricase uric acid
Urease Urea
Cholesterol oxidase cholesterol
Lipase triglycerides
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