Metabolism

Enzymes

Factors affecting enzymes

Chemical reaction

Metabolic pathway

Activators

Activation energy and reaction

Metabolism

Endergonic - When energy is needed ( abosrb energy)

Exergonic - When energy is released

Reactant - The substances the take part in the chemical reaction

Product - The result of the chemical reaction

  • All chemical reactions that our body needs to survive

Anabolic - Build up

Catabolic - Break down

Energy needed to start reaction (in both catabolic and anabolic)

a type of protein that speed up the chemical reaction

How it works

  1. The substrates bind with enzyme at active site and form "enzyme substrate complex"
  1. The enzyme substrate complex will break or join to convert substrates into product.
  1. Product released from enzyme and enzyme get back to original shape

More than 1 enzymes working in a pathway

Substrate concentration - The more substrate = the more faster reaction until the saturation point

Temperature

warm - fastest

cold - slower

heat - no reaction

pH - depend on enzyme (no standard)

non - protein molecule that work to help enzyme by binding to the active site to make substrate fit the active site.

Inhibitors

Molecule that stop enzyme from making product

Competitive - It will compete with the substrate for binding in active site.

Non competitive - it will bind to "allosteric site" which change the shape of the active site

Feedback inhibition - when the product of the pathway binds act as the non competitive inhibitor to stop the pathway to produce to much products