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Summary of Enzymes
Enzymes are proteins that influence substrate molecules and reduce the energy necessary for a chemical action to occur by stabilizing the transition state. This stabilization hurries up reaction rates and makes them happen at physiologically significant rates. Enzymes bind substrates at key locations in their structure called active sites. they're typically highly specific and only bind certain substrates sure as shooting reactions. Without enzymes, most metabolic reactions would take for much longer and wouldn't be fast enough to sustain life.Fundamentals
There are six main categories of enzymes: oxidoreductases, transferases,
hydrolases, lyases, isomerases, and ligases. Each category carries out a general
variety of reaction but catalyzes many alternative specific reactions within
their own category. Some enzymes, called apoenzymes, are inactive until they're
absolute to a cofactor, which activates the enzyme. A cofactor are often either
metal ions (e.g., Zn) or organic compounds that attach, either covalently or
noncovalently, to the enzyme. The cofactor and apoenzyme complex is termed a
holoenzyme. Enzymes are proteins comprised of amino acids linked together in one
or more polypeptide chains. This sequence of amino acids in a very polypeptide
chain is named the first structure. This, in turn, determines the three-
dimensional structure of the enzyme, including the form of the situation. The
secondary structure of a protein describes the localized polypeptide chain
structures, e.g., α-helices or β-sheets.
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