Enzymes

ENZYME STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

GIBBS FREE ENERGY INLY SPEAKS ON reactants and products, not the journey, today we will look at the journey

All enzymes are globular proteins (sphere shape)

Primary structure - list of amino acids

Secondary structure - a helix and beta pleated sheets

Tertiary structure - sheets and helix’s join together

In active site: Amino acids which bind and orient the substrate and there is amino acids that will reduce chemical activation energy

How does enzymes reduce activation energy? They can bind 2 substrates together and orientate them in the right way aka pieced together in right direction for reaction therefore reducing collisions in wrong orientation