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What does Km represent in enzyme kinetics?
What does Km represent in enzyme kinetics?
Which of the following statements about competitive inhibitors is true?
Which of the following statements about competitive inhibitors is true?
What do the Tense (T) and Relaxed (R) states of hemoglobin refer to?
What do the Tense (T) and Relaxed (R) states of hemoglobin refer to?
What is the Bohr effect?
What is the Bohr effect?
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How does 2,3-BPG regulate O2 binding to hemoglobin?
How does 2,3-BPG regulate O2 binding to hemoglobin?
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What is the significance of P50 in oxygen binding curves?
What is the significance of P50 in oxygen binding curves?
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What mechanism of catalysis involves the stabilization of the transition state?
What mechanism of catalysis involves the stabilization of the transition state?
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Which of the following describes the role of ribozymes?
Which of the following describes the role of ribozymes?
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Study Notes
Enzymes
- Enzymes are biological catalysts
- Substrate binding models exist
- Enzyme rate enhancement calculations exist
- Ribozymes are RNA catalysts
- Reaction coordinate diagrams explain enzymatic reactions
- Different types of catalysis enhance enzyme rate
- Serine proteases are a type of enzyme with specific mechanisms
- 6 major enzyme classes exist
Enzyme Kinetics
- Saturation curves describe enzyme kinetics
- Michaelis-Menten equation explains enzyme kinetics
- Steady-state assumption simplifies enzyme kinetics
- Km value indicates substrate affinity
- Km value relates enzyme and substrate affinities
- kcat represents catalytic rate
- Catalytic efficiency relates to both kcat and Km
- Turnover number quantifies catalytic activity
- Enzyme kinetics plots (Lineweaver-Burk) determine Km and Vmax
- Competitive inhibitors affect Vmax and Km
- Uncompetitive inhibitors affect Vmax and Km
- Noncompetitive inhibitors affect Vmax and Km
- Lineweaver-Burk plots help identify inhibition types
- Enzyme regulation methods exist
Hemoglobin
- Myoglobin and hemoglobin structures differ
- Heme prosthetic groups bind oxygen
- Oxygen saturation values (Y02) measured
- Oxygen binding curves for Hb and Mb exist
- P50 parameter describes oxygen-binding affinity
- External factors (PO2, [O2]) affect oxygen binding
- P50 calculations based on oxygen binding curves
- Allostery describes conformational shifts
- Tense (deoxy) and relaxed (oxy) states in hemoglobin exist
- Cooperativity explains oxygen binding
- Oxygen transport in the body involves hemoglobin
- Allosteric effectors modify oxygen binding
- pH (Bohr effect) impacts oxygen binding
- 2,3-BPG regulates hemoglobin oxygen binding
- Hemoglobin mutations can impact structure and function (conservative vs. nonconservative)
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This quiz covers essential concepts about enzymes, their functions as biological catalysts, and various aspects of enzyme kinetics. Topics include substrate binding models, reaction coordinate diagrams, and key terms such as Km, kcat, and competitive inhibitors. Test your knowledge on the major classes of enzymes and the Michaelis-Menten equation.
