{"id":6573,"date":"2020-12-07T18:28:59","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T18:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/chemistryformajors\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=6573"},"modified":"2021-01-10T20:03:23","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T20:03:23","slug":"discussion-biology-application","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/chemistryformajors\/chapter\/discussion-biology-application\/","title":{"raw":"Discussion: Catalysts in Biochemistry","rendered":"Discussion: Catalysts in Biochemistry"},"content":{"raw":"Catalysts are immensely important to biochemistry and the proper functioning of biological systems. Our bodies manufacture their own catalytic environments by making proteins known as enzymes (see the section about Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency for an example of one crucial enzyme). This module discusses all the ways that the rate of reactions can be affected.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2020\/12\/11001604\/Enzyme_Polyneuridine_Aldehyde_Esterase.png\"><img class=\" wp-image-6634 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2020\/12\/11001604\/Enzyme_Polyneuridine_Aldehyde_Esterase.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"549\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a>\r\n<ol>\r\n \t<li>Describe a catalyst in simple terms.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Find an important biological enzyme through a little research (it\u2019s fine to just look up \u201cimportant biological enzymes\u201d and pick one!)\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Describe why this enzyme is important<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Write out the reaction that is catalyzed by the enzyme<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Describe the problems that could occur (or do occur) if the enzyme isn't working in someone\u2019s body<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>","rendered":"<p>Catalysts are immensely important to biochemistry and the proper functioning of biological systems. Our bodies manufacture their own catalytic environments by making proteins known as enzymes (see the section about Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency for an example of one crucial enzyme). This module discusses all the ways that the rate of reactions can be affected.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2020\/12\/11001604\/Enzyme_Polyneuridine_Aldehyde_Esterase.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6634 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2020\/12\/11001604\/Enzyme_Polyneuridine_Aldehyde_Esterase.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"549\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Describe a catalyst in simple terms.<\/li>\n<li>Find an important biological enzyme through a little research (it\u2019s fine to just look up \u201cimportant biological enzymes\u201d and pick one!)\n<ul>\n<li>Describe why this enzyme is important<\/li>\n<li>Write out the reaction that is catalyzed by the enzyme<\/li>\n<li>Describe the problems that could occur (or do occur) if the enzyme isn&#8217;t working in someone\u2019s body<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-6573\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Catalysts in Biochemistry. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Shared previously<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>This is a depiction of the Enzyme Polyneuridine-Aldehyde Esterase. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Mikirehil. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Enzyme_Polyneuridine_Aldehyde_Esterase.png\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Enzyme_Polyneuridine_Aldehyde_Esterase.png<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\">CC BY-SA: Attribution-ShareAlike<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":17533,"menu_order":10,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"Catalysts in Biochemistry\",\"author\":\"\",\"organization\":\"Lumen Learning\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"},{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"This is a depiction of the Enzyme Polyneuridine-Aldehyde Esterase\",\"author\":\"Mikirehil\",\"organization\":\"\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Enzyme_Polyneuridine_Aldehyde_Esterase.png\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by-sa\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-6573","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":2992,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/chemistryformajors\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/6573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/chemistryformajors\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/chemistryformajors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/chemistryformajors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17533"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/chemistryformajors\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/6573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7936,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/chemistryformajors\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/6573\/revisions\/7936"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/chemistryformajors\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/2992"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/chemistryformajors\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/6573\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/chemistryformajors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/chemistryformajors\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=6573"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/chemistryformajors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=6573"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/chemistryformajors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=6573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}