Biochemistry - Enzymes

This learning journey explores the fundamentals of enzyme biochemistry, including their classification, specificity, and kinetics. It also explores enzyme inhibition and the mechanisms that regulate enzyme activity.


1. Enzymes: nomenclature and categories

By Prof. Gerald W. Feigenson – Cornell University, USA

An excerpt from Enzyme specificity and catalysis


2. Enzyme specificity

By Prof. Gerald W. Feigenson – Cornell University, USA

An excerpt from Enzyme specificity and catalysis


3. What catalysts actually do?

By Prof. Gerald W. Feigenson – Cornell University, USA

An excerpt from Enzyme specificity and catalysis


4. How enzymes work? Michaelis-Menten equation

By Prof. Gerald W. Feigenson – Cornell University, USA

An excerpt from Enzyme kinetics (Michaelis-Menten)


5. How do we measure the KM and the Vmax? Lineweaver-Burk plot

By Prof. Gerald W. Feigenson – Cornell University, USA

An excerpt from Enzyme kinetics (Michaelis-Menten)


6. What is enzyme inhibition?

By Prof. Gerald W. Feigenson – Cornell University, USA

An excerpt from Enzyme inhibition; chymotrypsin


7. Competitive inhibition

By Prof. Gerald W. Feigenson – Cornell University, USA

An excerpt from Enzyme inhibition; chymotrypsin


8. Non-competitive inhibition

By Prof. Gerald W. Feigenson – Cornell University, USA

An excerpt from Enzyme inhibition; chymotrypsin


9. Irreversible inhibition

By Prof. Gerald W. Feigenson – Cornell University, USA

An excerpt from Enzyme inhibition; chymotrypsin


10. Enzyme regulation – control of enzyme concentration

By Prof. Gerald W. Feigenson – Cornell University, USA

An excerpt from Enzyme regulation and coenzymes


11. Enzyme regulation – control of enzyme activity

By Prof. Gerald W. Feigenson – Cornell University, USA

An excerpt from Enzyme regulation and coenzymes