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.
Table of Contents
- Enzymes: nomenclature and categories
- Enzyme specificity
- What catalysts actually do?
- How enzymes work? Michaelis-Menten equation
- How do we measure the KM and the Vmax? Lineweaver-Burk plot
- What is enzyme inhibition?
- Competitive inhibition
- Non-competitive inhibition
- Irreversible inhibition
- Enzyme regulation – control of enzyme concentration
- Enzyme regulation – control of 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