BIOL 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Exergonic Reaction, Non-Covalent Interactions, Activation Energy

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Enzymes: catalyze reactions, act to accelerate reactions that would spontaneously occur. Transition states and activation energy: enzyme curves are going to have the same shape, transition state higher state intermediate, reactants transition. Example: heat: negative energy exergonic reaction. All reactions require energy input to overcome barrier of activation energy. Enzymes lower the activation energy of a reaction: reactants and products have the same starting/ending points. Catalysis of reactions by enzymes: on graph. X- axis is progress of the reaction. Y- axis is free energy (increasing upward) Reaction with enzyme lower free energy level than free energy without. Enzymes and substrate specificity enzyme: enzymes act on a single substrate or several closely-related substrates, active site where substrate goes and connects to enzyme, substrate bonding noncovalent bonding hangs onto cell tighter. Induced fit when the enzyme tightens down on the substrate. Catalysis by enzymes: weak interactions hold the substrate in the active site.

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