Enzymes

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What are enzymes? how do they work?
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Enzymes
  1. A globular potein
    1. Biological catalyst
      1. Lowers activation energy
        1. With the help of cofactors eg. coenzymes and prothetic grps.
      2. Lock and key hypothesis - enzyme & substrate highly specific
        1. Complimentary to each other
          1. Hydrolytic enzymes break the substrate down
          2. However has been refined... Induced fit hypothesis
            1. Flexibility within enzyme
              1. Enzyme-substrate complex
              2. active site
              3. Intra/extracellular enzymes
                1. Factors affecting enzyme activity
                  1. Enzyme inhibition
                    1. Competitive, non-competitive, reversible, irreversible
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