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What are enzyme characteristics?


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Enzymes:

  • Biochemical reactions are catalysed by enzymes, which are biological polymers that act as catalysts.
  • The bulk of enzymes are proteins having catalytic properties that are required to carry out various operations.
  • A group of enzymes that are required for life carry out metabolic processes and other chemical reactions in the cell.
  • Enzymes can be present in all of the body's tissues and fluids.
  • Intracellular enzymes catalyse all of the reactions that take place in metabolic pathways.
  • These are the type of protein which increases the rate of the reaction.
  • These are formed by the amino acids linked together by peptide bonds.

Characteristics:

  • They increase the rate of the reaction being unchanged during the whole reaction.
  • They are required only in a small amount in the reaction.
  • They are highly specific in their action.
  • Enzymes have a very precise action.
  • pH and temperature have an impact on them.
  • They can be allosterically controlled in a variety of ways.
  • The reactions they catalyse do not destroy or modify them.
  • It can work in either direction.

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