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Enzymes and metabolic control

Canonical unit B03

• Enzymes: what a catalyst can and cannot do
  Enzymes as globular protein catalysts, activation energy and what lowering it does and does not change, the active site …
• Four factors, four curves, and one honest way to measure a rate
  Initial rate and why the rate of an enzyme-catalysed reaction falls during a run, the effect of temperature including Q1…
• Inhibition: how cells, poisons and medicines all turn enzymes down
  Competitive and non-competitive inhibition and their effects on Vmax and Km, reversible against irreversible inhibitors,…

Practical work that lands here

• Measuring the rate of an enzyme-controlled reaction