BIO-0013 Lecture Notes - Phospholipid
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9 18 12: depends on activation energy, g = difference in free energy between reactants and products particles with energy level higher than the activation energy will be able to participate in the reaction (see graph) catalysts speed reactions by lowering activation energy, enzymes are organic catalysts, lowering activation energy changes the number of molecules that can participate in the reaction enzyme site, active site can be made up of amino acid residues from very distant locations on the amino acid sequence, active site = amino acids that interact with and alter the substrate brings substrates into close proximity facilitates reaction stabilizes energy, after reaction, products have a lower affinity for the active site and will be release quickly, enzymes are regenerated after each reaction, enzymes are highly specific in the reactions they catalyze substrate binding in the active site of a trypsin like serine protease, will cut after peptide bond before c=o.
