Protease is an enzyme that catalyzes the breaking of amide bonds which is very stable at “mild” conditions, namely body temperature and pH 7

Q: Isomerization of the following ketose can give two aldoses. Draw the structures of the two aldoses…

A: The given sugar is α-D-fructose. α-D-fructose is a ketose sugar. Carbohydrates or sugar molecules…

Q: ll coenzymes are cofactors, but not all cofactors are coenzymes. Explain this statement briefly.

A: Enzymes are biological catalysts that catalyse biochemical reactions. Most enzymes are made up of…

Q: 4- a-keto-B- а- Phenylpyruvate hydroxyphenylpyruvate e methylvalerate ketoisocaproate dioxygenase…

A: AMINO ACIDS  PRODUCT ACCUMULATED  Tyrosine 4-Hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase  Leucine…

Q: To what class of enzymes does hexokinase belong? Describe in general the reaction it catalyzes.

A: An enzyme is a substance that acts as a catalyst in living organisms, regulating the rate at which…

Q: Myristoleic acid is a monounsaturated fatty acid found in small amounts in a variety of foods.…

A: Myristoleic acid would undergo beta-oxidation for its catabolism.

Q: A biochemist is trying to determine the type of proteases they have isolated from walrus blubber.…

A: Enzymes are highly specialized proteins that have extraordinary catalytic power, greater than that…

Q: There is a cysteine protease, which uses a similar chemical mechanism to chymotrypsin except for…

A: Cysteine proteases are proteases that degrade protein and are also called thiol proteases. They use…

Q: Asp residue (both of which are essential for catalysis) with pK, values of 5.9 and 4.5,…

A: In simple terms, pH indicates whether a substance is acid or base. pKa determine how strong is an…

Q: Draw a glycerol bonded to two stearic acids and a phosphate group with an “R” group attached –…

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Q: , non-ionizable R groups.

A: Introduction  Beginning with the first tetrahedral middle of the road, draw the instrument of…

Q: In covalent catalysis, either nucleophilic catalysis or electrophilic catalysis occurs. Do you agree…

A: Enzymes are known as biological catalysts, which perform an essential role in various biochemical…

Q: A certain plant storage protein, after being isolated, was digested using both 8N H2SO4 and conc.…

A: Paper chromatography is an analytical technique that separates specific substances from a mixture.…

Q: In order to function as an oxidative phosphorylation uncoupler, 2,4-dinitrophenol must act…

A: An uncoupler is a molecule that disrupts oxidative phosphorylation in prokaryotes and mitochondria…

Q: The task I have to do is to investigate the purification of Lactic Acid by means of Extraction with…

A: The very first microbial production is the production of lactic acid.

Q: ATP hydrolysis to make the ________ of glutamine biosynthetically active.

A: Glutamine amidotransferase is an important enzyme that actually functions like the transfer of the…

Q: A D-aldohexose A is reduced to an optically active alditol B using NaBH, in CH,OH. A is converted by…

A: Aldohexoses are compounds containing six carbon chain with an aldehyde group present. We are given…

Q: Carboxylic acids that undergo nucleophilic acyl substitutionreactions are often first converted to…

A: During the process of thioester formation, there is a nucleophilic acyl substitution reaction…

Q: 3CLpro is a cysteine protease, which are among the most common proteases in biochemistry, however…

A: The 3 dimensional conformation of a biomolecule is highly specific and vital to its function,…

Q: Discuss the behavior of enzymes as described by the Michaelis-Menten Equation

A: Enzymes are proteins with the capability to accelerate the rate of a biochemical reactions. Enzymes…

Q: You are trying to purify protein C from a mixture of proteins noted in the above Table. If you had…

A: Biochemical techniques used to separate proteins are size exclusion column chromatography,…

Q: List three effects of macromolecular crowding on the properties of enzymes and the reactions they…

A: Introduction: The organic molecules that are necessary for the growth and development of the body…

Q: The primary structure of the enzyme lysozyme compared to its tertiary structure is an example of how…

A: Lysozyme is an enzyme present in the saliva and tear. It has an antibacterial effect. The substrate…

Q: The breakdown of a complex carbohydrate into its monomeric unit can be described as an…

A: Enzymes are catalysts that work by lowering the activation energy of the substrates. The lowered…

Q: Bovine chymotrypsin is a serine protease.  The enzyme is structurally stable over the pH range of…

A: Chymotrypsinogen enzyme is responsible for the activation of trypsinogen into trypsin during the…

Q: Phosphopentose isomerase interconverts the aldose ribose 5-phosphate and the ketose ribulose…

A: the reaction is the part of the oxidative phase of the pentose phosphate pathway this is the last…

Q: 5. Consider the isomerization of glucose-6-phosphate (G6P) into fructose-6-phosphate (F6P): G6P F6P…

A: Glycolysis is a metabolic pathway which results in formation of pyruvic acid along with the release…

Q: After determining the optimum pH, you are now tasked to determine the inhibitory effects of…

A: Enzyme is the biocatalyst molecule that increases the rate for reaction by decreasing the activation…

Q: During the process of synthesizing palmitate (C16), an acyl ACP __________. For the sake of this…

A: Fatty acid β-oxidation is the process by which fatty acids are broken down to produce energy.

Q: The uncatalyzed reaction rate for the conversion of substrate X to product Y is one year. The…

A: Enzymes are specialized types of proteins that are responsible for catalyzing all biochemical…

Q: Draw the skeletal structure of the products formed when the given triacylglycerol is hydrolyzed with…

A: Triacylglycerol is a type of lipid. Triacylglycerols are composed of a glycerol molecule and three…

Q: What are catalases? Why are they called antioxidant enzymes? Give the industrial applications of…

A: Enzymes are the biocatalyst that increases the rate of reaction by decreasing the activation energy…

Q: During the inhibition of glycopeptide transpeptidase, a serine from the enzyme reacts with the amide…

A: Penicillin is an antibiotic the mode of action is it acts on the bacterial cell walls and lyses the…

Q: What are enzymes? What distinguishes enzymes from regular chemical catalysts? On the specificity of…

A: Enzymes are proteins that act as biological catalysts in living organisms.Enzymes are involved in a…

Q: Draw the structure of alpha-ketoglutarate that is generated in a reaction catalyzed by glutamate…

A: Glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH) catalyzes the conversion of glutamate into α-ketoglutarate. The enzyme…

Q: If thymine nucleotides are degraded by the same enzymes as those catabolizing uridine nucleotides,…

A: The cleavage of the ring structures metabolizes thymine and uracil nucleotides. The usual end…

Q: During glycogen synthesis, glucose-1P is converted into a molecule called UDPG. This reaction also…

A: The glycogen synthesis takes place in animal tissues. The glycogen synthesis begins with glucose 6-…

Q: Prepare a schematic diagram and present it as though it were a Figure in a publication (scientific…

A: Binding of ligand to receptor or protein can be specific and non-specific. For the genuity of the…

Q: Salting out and gelation of proteins is most advisable to carry out when biopolymers are in the…

A: Proteins are biomolecules made up of different amino acids. A protein becomes completely active in…

Q: Dihydrouracil and β-ureidopropionate (N-carbamoyl–β-alanine) are intermediates in the conversion of…

A: The non-essential amino acid is referred to as beta-alanine. This amino acid produced in the body…