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METABOLISM AND ENZYMES

Raven Ch.8

Big Idea 2: BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS UTILIZE FREE ENERGY AND MOLECULAR BUILDING BLOCKS TO GROW, TO REPRODUCE AND TO MAINTAIN HOMEOSTASIS.

Essential Knowledge:

Cell membranes are selectively permeable due to their structure.

Growth and dynamic homeostasis are maintained by the constant movement of molecules across membranes.

Eukaryotic cells maintain internal membranes that partition the cell into specialized regions.

  • All biological systems from cells and organisms to populations, communities and ecosystems are affected by complex biotic and abiotic interactions involving exchange of matter and free energy.
  • Homeostatic mechanisms reflect both common ancestry and divergence due to adaptation in different environments.

Flow of energy through life

  • Life is built on chemical reactions
  • transforming energy from one form to another

Metabolism

  • Chemical reactions of life
  • ______between molecules
  • dehydration synthesis
  • synthesis
  • ______reactions
  • ______between molecules
  • hydrolysis
  • digestion
  • ______reactions

Chemical reactions & energy

  • Some chemical reactions ______
  • ______
  • digesting polymers
  • hydrolysis = catabolism
  • Some chemical reactions require ______
  • ______
  • building polymers
  • dehydration synthesis = anabolism

Exergonicvs.Endergonic

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G = ______

  • Organisms require energy to live
  • Where does that energy come from?
  • couplingexergonic reactions (______energy) with endergonic reactions (______energy)

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What drives reactions?

  • If reactions are “downhill”, why don’t they just happen spontaneously?
  • ______

Activation energy

  • Breaking down large molecules requires an initial input of energy
  • ______
  • large biomolecules are stable
  • must absorb energy to break bonds

Too much activation energy for life

  • Activation energy
  • amount of energy needed to destabilize the bonds of a molecule
  • moves the reaction over an “energy hill”

Reducing Activation energy

  • ______
  • reducing the amount of energy to start a reaction
  • So what’s a cell got to do to reduce activation energy?
  • get help! … chemical help…______

Enzymes

  • ______
  • proteins (& RNA)
  • facilitate chemical reactions
  • ______rate of reaction without being consumed
  • ______activation energy
  • don’t change ______released or required
  • required for most biological reactions

Enzymes vocabulary:•highly ______

  • thousands of different enzymes in cells

______•______reactionsof life

  • reactant which binds to enzyme
  • enzyme-substrate complex: temporary association

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  • end result of reaction

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  • enzyme’s catalytic site; substrate fits into active site

Properties of enzymes

  • ______
  • each enzyme works with a specific substrate
  • chemical fit between active site & substrate

H bonds & ionic bonds

  • ______
  • single enzyme molecule can catalyze thousands or more reactions per second
  • enzymes unaffected by the reaction
  • Affected by ______
  • any condition that affects protein structure
  • temperature, pH, salinity

Naming conventions

  • Enzymes named for reaction they catalyze
  • ______breaks down sucrose
  • ______break down proteins
  • ______break down lipids
  • DNA ______builds DNA
  • adds nucleotides to DNA strand
  • ______breaks down
    proteins (polypeptides)

Lock and Key model

  • ______model of enzyme action
  • substrate fits into 3-D structure of enzyme’ active site
  • H bonds between substrate & enzyme
  • like “key fits into lock”

Induced fit model

  • ______model of enzyme action
  • 3-D structure of enzyme fits substrate
  • substrate binding cause enzyme to change shape leading to a tighter fit
  • “______”
  • bring chemical groups in position to catalyze reaction

How does it work?

  • Variety of mechanisms to lower activation energy & speed up reaction
  • ______
  • active site orients substrates in correct position for reaction

enzyme brings substrate closer together

  • ______
  • active site binds substrate & puts stress on bonds that must be broken, making it easier to separate molecules

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