Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
BIOCATALYSIS - Coggle Diagram
BIOCATALYSIS
ENZYME
DEFINITION
A macromolecule made up of protein that acts as a biological catalyst that speed up the rate of chemical reaction by lowering activation energy.
PROPERTIES OF ENZYME
•All are globular proteins.
• Act as biological catalysts to increase the rate of biochemical reactions.
• Do not change structurally and chemically after a reaction/reusable.
• Highly specific for a particular substrate in a reaction.
• Required in small amount.
• Lower the activation energy of a reaction by bringing the subtrates into contact with one another.
• May catalyse reversible or irreversible reactions.
• Their activities are affected by pH, temperature, substrate concentration and enzyme concentration.
• Their activities is maximum at optimum temperature/pH.
• Can be denatured.
• Enzyme possess active sites where the substrate molecules bind for a reaction to take place.
• Does not alter the nature of the end product of the reaction.
-
-
-
INHIBITOR
DEFINITION
A substance that interacts with the enzyme to prevent it from working in the normal manner, hence stopping or slowing a specific enzymatic reaction.
-