Question

Answer the following questions about cellular enzymes:

a.) How are enzymes produced?

b.) How are they used within the cell?

c.) What factors affect the performance of enzymes?

Answer 1

a) enzymes are nothing but proteins that have a specialised function of catalyzing a biochemical reaction. Hence they are formed just like other proteins - peptides are formed by translation from mRNA, they then fold to generate functionally active tertiary or quaternary structures.

b) they are used in the cell for various biochemical processes like hydrolysis, phosphorylation, synthesis of larger molecules , etc.

c)factors that affect function of enzymes : pH, temperature, cofactors, inhibitors, and concentrations of substrate, product and the enzyme itself.