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- November 8, 2006 at 9:49 pm #6257
lil_wend
ParticipantOn the basis of the active site, why would the following conditions speed a chemical reaction with
More substrate? ❓ - November 8, 2006 at 10:10 pm #58610
Poison
Participantmore binding (speeds it up to a point)
- December 7, 2006 at 5:25 pm #62043
Kayleigh
Participantquote lil_wend:On the basis of the active site, why would the following conditions speed a chemical reaction with
More substrate? ❓If there is more substrate, then there are more molecules moving around and therefore more chance of collisions and the substrate binding with the active site. This rule works under any enzyme circumstances unless the question states that there are a limited amout of active sites. If there are 20 active sites and 40 substrates, then at any one time only 20 active sites can be occupied, and 40 substrates will be useless until they collide with a vacant active site.Ideally, there are the same number of substrates as there are active sites. 😆
- December 9, 2006 at 9:55 pm #62262
sdekivit
Participantwhen [S] > active sites, the enzyme is completely saturated and V = Vmax
- December 11, 2006 at 1:44 pm #62436
nerd
ParticipantMore S = more successful collisions.
Successful collisions are those that could bind with enzyme. - December 15, 2006 at 4:59 pm #62889
sdekivit
Participantquote nerd:More S = more successful collisions.
Successful collisions are those that could bind with enzyme.depends on whether the enzyme is elastic or not. If the enzyme is inelastic, a rise in substrate concentration won’t have any effect on the flux of the reaction.
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