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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

  1. Enzymes: nomenclature and categories
  2. Enzyme specificity
  3. What catalysts actually do?
  4. How enzymes work? Michaelis-Menten equation
  5. How do we measure the KM and the Vmax? Lineweaver-Burk plot
  6. What is enzyme inhibition?
  7. Competitive inhibition
  8. Non-competitive inhibition
  9. Irreversible inhibition
  10. Enzyme regulation – control of enzyme concentration
  11. 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

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2. Enzyme specificity

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

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3. What catalysts actually do?

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

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4. How enzymes work? Michaelis-Menten equation

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

An excerpt from Enzyme kinetics (Michaelis-Menten)

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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)

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6. What is enzyme inhibition?

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

An excerpt from Enzyme inhibition; chymotrypsin

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7. Competitive inhibition

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

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8. Non-competitive inhibition

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

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9. Irreversible inhibition

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

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10. Enzyme regulation – control of enzyme concentration

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

An excerpt from Enzyme regulation and coenzymes

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11. Enzyme regulation – control of enzyme activity

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

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