WHat are Enzymes?

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Enzymes are macromolecules that act as a catalyst, and it’s a chemical agent that accelerates the reaction without being consumed by the feedback or the results (Campbell and Reece, 2005). After the adjustment by the enzymes, the chemical movement through the pathways of metabolism will become awfully crowded because many chemical reactions are taking a long time (Campbell and Reece, 2005). There are two kinds of reactions in nature. The first one is Catabolic reaction and the second one is Anabolic reaction. Catabolic reactions are large molecules that are broken up into smaller molecules (Ahmed, 2013). Anabolic reactions are small molecules that join to make larger molecules, like polymerization (Ahmed, 2013). If you put all the reactions together, catabolic and anabolic is called Metabolism (Ahmed, 2013).
Basically enzymes are protein molecules that can be composed of one or more multiple polypeptide (Ahmed, 2013). Enzymes can also have non-protein parts that are called cofactors and they are attached to them (Ahmed, 2013). “If the cofactors are organic nature they are called coenzymes” (Ahmed, 2013). For a catalytic of an enzyme to extend its speed of the reaction varies, depending of the factors such as temperature, pH, concentration of substrate, concentration of enzyme and so on (Ahmed, 2013). Enzyme has five properties: first one is Enzyme bind to substrate, second one is Enzyme are substrate specific, third one is substrate binds an enzyme at the active site (Ahmed, 2013). The last two properties are “Enzymes are not consumed in a reaction” and “Enzyme work best on optimum temperature and pH” (Ahmed, 2013). Any particular study will have changes in the rate of the reaction because of the differe...

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...act with the factors and it cause them to react greatly as we expect them to react.

References
Albery John W. and Knowles Jeremy R. (1976). “Evolution of Enzyme Function and the Development of Catalytic Efficiency.” Biochemistry. Vol. 15, No. 25.
Ahmed, S. 2013. Principles of Biology Lab manual. U.S.A., Hobbes End publication: page 21-30 (Ahmed, 2013).
Chul-Won Park and Zipp Erik (2000). “The effect of Temperature and pH on Enzymes Kinetics.” Introduction to Biochemical Engineering. Web (Chul-Won Park, 2000).
Cleland W. W. (1975) “Partition Analysis and the Concept of Net Rate Constant as Tools in Enzyme Kinetics.” Biochemistry. Vol. 14, NO. 14 (Cleland 1975).
Reece Jane B., Urry Lisa A., Cain Michael L., Wasserman Steven A., Minorsky Peter V., and Jackson Robert B. (2005). “Chapter 8: An introduction to Metabolism”. Campbell Biology. Ninth Edition. Pp152-157.

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