In addition, large portions may be of value to students on non-degree courses c. No previous knowledge of biochemistry, and little of chemistry, is assumed; most scientific terms are defined and placed in context when they first appear. Enzymology inevitably involves a certain amount of elementary mathematics, and some of the equations which are derived may appear somewhat complicated at first sight; however, once the initial biochemical assumptions have been understood, the derivations usually follow on the basis of simple logic, without involving any difficult mathematical manipulations.
These problems use hypotheti- cal data, although the results are sometimes based on findings reported in the biochemical literature. If the size of a book is to be kept reasonable, some things of value have to be left out. The chief aim of this particular book is to help the student understand the concepts involved in enzymology hence the title!
Instead, an attempt has been made to give a perspective of each topic, and examples are quoted where appropriate. Credit has been given wherever possible to those responsible for the development of the subject, but many names deserving of mention have been excluded for reasons of space. Individual scientific papers have not been referred to, but at the end of each chapter is a list of relevant books and review articles, from which references to the original papers may be obtained.
As with any book at this level, Certain topics have been presented in a simplified possibly even over-simplified form. A slight exception to this may be in the use of symbols: experience has shown that symbols Up and Vingx help students to understand some of the basic concepts, so these are adopted here, whereas the Enzyme Commission recommended v and V for general use. I must record my immense debt to my teachers: in particular to Dr later Professor Malcolm Dixon, for awakening my interest in enzymology, and to Dr Peter Sykes, for demonstrating that organic chemistry is a science and not just a list of reactions.
J am also grateful to Drs Barnett Levin, Victor Oberholzer and Ann Burgess, who introduced me, albeit indirectly, to the applications of enzymology in medicine. My thanks are due to Dr Walter Morris and the fate Mr Gerald Leadbeater, for giving me the opportunity to teach enzymology, and to my predecessors in my present post, whose legacy of notes proved useful when I began teaching. For the same reason, thanks are due to Dr Aian Wiseman and the publishers.
Finally, am extremely grateful to my wife, Jan, who has been involved throughout and who typed the bulk of the manuscript. Any errors of fact or interpretation which may have inadvertently crept into the book are, of course, entirely my own responsibility, and I would be obliged if I could be informed about them.
Several extra problems have also been added. I am also grateful to the staff of the Trent Polytechnic Science Library. The revisions for the third edition have been along the same lines as those for the second, reflecting, in particular, developments in molecular biology and analytical techniques. Sections on indirect determination of protein primary structure, site- directed mutagenesis, dry-reagent techniques, and enzymes and recombinant DNA technology have been introduced.
I would like to thank, in addition to those mentioned above, my colleagues Drs Ellen Billett, Sandra Kirk and Jon Leah, as well as correspondents who have pointed out errors in the previous edition. Enzymes are biological catalysts. They increase the rate of chemical reactions taking place within living cells without themselves suffering any overall change.
The reactants of enzyme-catalysed reactions are termed substrates and each enzyme is quite specific in character, acting on a particular substrate or substrates to produce a particular product or products. All enzymes are proteins. However, without tl sence of a non-protein component called a cofactor, many enzyme proteins lack catalytic activity. When this is the case, the inactive protein component of an enzyme is termed the apoenzyme, and the active enzyme, including cofactor, the holoenzyme.
The cofactor may be an organic molecule, when it is known as a coenzyme, or it may be a metal ion. Some enzymes bind cofactors more tightly than others. When a cofactor is bound so tightly that it is difficult to remove without damaging the enzyme it is sometimes called a prosthetic group. In , the active agent breaking down the sugar was partially isolated and given the name diastase now known as amylase.
A little later, a substance which digested dietary protein was extracted from gastric juice and called pepsin.
These and other active preparations were given the general name ferments. Liebig recognized that these ferments could be non-living materials obtained from living cells, but Pasteur and others still maintained that ferments must contain living material. While this dispute continued, the term ferment was gradually replaced by the name enzyme.
Appropriately, it was in yeast that a factor was discovered which settled the argument in favour of the inanimate theory of catalysi the Biichners, in , showed that sugar fermentation could take place when a yeast cell extract was added even though no living cells were present. In , Sumner crystallized urease from Jack-bean extracts, and in the next few years many other enzymes were purified and crystallized.
Once pure enzymes were available, their structure and properties could be determined, and the findings form the material for most of this book. Today, enzymes still form a major subject for academic research. They are investigated in hospitals as an aid to diagnosis and, because of their specificity of action, are of great value as analytical reagents. Enzymes are still widely used in industry, continuing and extending many processes which have been used since the dawn of history.
The names of enzymes usually indicate the substrate involved. The former is used because it sounds better but it introduces a possible trap for the unwary because it could easily suggest an enzyme acting on the substrate lactate.
There is nothing in the name of this enzyme or many others to indicate the type of reaction being catalysed. Some names, such as catalase, indicate neither the substrate nor the reaction catalase mediates the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide. Needless to say, whenever a new enzyme has been characterized, great care has usually been taken not to give it exactly the same name as an enzyme catalysing a different reaction. Also, the names of many enzymes make clear the substrate and the nature of the reaction being catalysed.
So, because of the lack of consistency in the nomenclature, it became apparent as the list of known enzymes rapidly grew that there was a need for a systematic way of naming and classifying enzymes.
A commission was appointed by the International Union of Biochemistry, and its report, published in and updated in , and , forms the basis of the present accepted system. Each enzyme was assigned a code number, consisting of four elements, separated by dots. There-is no general rule, because the meanings of these digits are defined separately for each of the main classes. Some examples are given later in this chapter. Enzymes catalysing very similar but non-identical reactions, e.
The fourth digit distinguishes between them by defining the actual substrate, e. However, it should be noted that isoenzymes, that is to say, different enzymes catalysing identical reactions, will have the same four figure classification.
There are, for example, five different isoenzymes of lactate dehydrogenase within the human body and these will have an identical code. The clas ion, therefore, provides only the basis for a unique identification of an enzyme: the particular isoenzyme and its source still have to be specified.
The classification used is that of the most important direction from the biochemical point of view or according to some convention defined by the Commis- sion.
Some problems are given at the end of this chapter to help the student become familiar with this system of classification. This word is either one of the six main classes of enzymes or a subdivision of one of them.
When a reaction involves two types of overall change, e. Oxidation and decarboxylation, the second function is indicated in brackets, e.
Examples are given below. The systematic name and the Enzyme Commission E. However, these names are likely to be long and unwieldy. Trivial names may, therefore, be used in a communication, once they have ie ced and defined in terms of the systematic name and E. Trivial n e also inevitably used in everyday situations in the laboratory. The Enzyme Commission made recommendations as to which trivial names were acceptable, altering those which were considered vague or misleading. The second digit in the code number of oxidoreductases indicates the donor of the reducing equivalents hydrogen or electrons involved in the reaction.
The second digit in the classification describes the type of group transferred. Thus, E. The exception to this general rule for transferases is where there is transfer of phosphate groups: these cannot be described further, so there is opportunity to indicate the acceptor. Some examples of transferases are: Methylmalonyl-CoA: pyruvate carboxyltransferase E. They are classified according to the type of bond hydrolysed. Thus, oO Il E.
Main Class 4: Lyases These enzymes catalyse the non-hydrolytic removal of groups from substrates, often leaving double bonds.
The second digit in the classification indicates the bond broken, for example, Second digit Bond broken 1 c-c 2 c-o 3 C-N 4 c-s The third digit refers to the type of group removed.
Thus, for the C—C lyases: Third digit Group removed 1 carboxyl group i. Also classified as lyases are enzymes catalysing reactions whose biochemically important direction is the reverse of the above, i. These may have the trivial name synthase or, if water is added across the double bond, hydratase, as discussed earlier in the example of fumarate hydratase fumar- ase ; the systematic name of this particular enzyme is L-malate hydro-lyase E.
Main Class 5: Isomerases Enzymes catalysing isomerization reactions are classified according to the type of reaction involved. For example: Second digit Type of reaction 1 Racemization or epimerization inversion at an asymmetric carbon atom 2 cis-trans isomerization 3 intramolecular oxidoreductases 4 intramolecular transfer reaction The third digit describes the type of molecule undergoing isomerization.
Thus, for racemases and epimerases: Third digit Substrate 1 amino acids 2 hydroxy acids 3 carbohydrates An example is alanine racemase E. Thus, oO E. H An example is L-glutamate: ammonia ligase E. Often a further, non-protein, component called a cofactor is required before an enzyme has catalytic activity. Enzymes have been used for many centuries, although their true nature has only become known relatively recently, and they are still of great importance in scientific research, clinical diagnosis and industry.
Because of the lack of consistency and occasional lack of clarity in the names of enzymes, an Enzyme Commission appointed by the International Union of Bio- chemistry has given all known enzymes a systematic name and a four-figure classification.
These, together with the source of the enzyme concerned, should be quoted in any report. Enzyme Nomenclature. Published by Academic Press. Corrections and additions listed in European Journal of Biochemistry , pp. CO3 H5N. CO3 alycylglycine elycine slycine f Endohydrolysis of a-1,4 glucan links in polysaccharides containing 3 or more a-1,4 linked D-glucose units.
Proteins are macromolecules i. They are found in abundance in living organisms, making up more than halfthe dry weight of cells. Two distinct types are known: fibrous and globular proteins. Fibrous proteins are insoluble in water and are physically tough, which enables them to play a structural role. Examples include «-keratin a component of hair, nails and feathers and collagen the main fibrous element of skin, bone and tendon. In contrast, globular proteins are generally soluble in water and may be crystallized from solution.
They have a functional role in living organisms, all enzymes being lobular proteins. Unlike polysaccharides and lipids, which may be hoarded by cells solely as a store of fuel, each protein in a cell has some precise purpose which is related to its shape and structure. Nevertheless, should the need arise, proteins may be broken down, either to provide energy or to supply raw materials for the synthesis of other macromolecules.
All proteins consist of amino acid units, joined in series. The sequence of amino acids in a protein is specific, being determined by the structure of the genetic material of the cell see section 3. Some proteins are composed entirely of these amino acid building blocks and are termed simple proteins. Others, called conjugated proteins, contain extra material, which is firmly bound to one or more of the amino acid units. For example: Conjugated protein Extra component present nucleoprotein a nucleic acid lipoprotein allipid glycoprotein an oligosaccharide haemoprotein an iron protoporphyrin flavoprotein a flavin nucleotide metalloprotein a metal.
COH A OH The symbol R represents the rest of the molecule, often called the side chain, The amino and carboxyl groups attached to the a-carbon atom are termed the a-amino and «-carboxyl groups, todistinguish them from similar groups which may be present as part of the side. Proline, Whose «-amino group forms part of an imino ring, is an imino acid with a formula slightly different from the general one given above see Fig.
A polar molecule or group has a degree of ionic character and is hydrophilic, i. Polar groups may be acidic, basic or neutral.
A non-polar molecule or group is entirely covalent in character and is hydrophobic, i. The side chains of the amino acids commonly found in proteins, classified according to their polar or non-polar characteristics, are shown in Fig. Several polar side chains contain ionizable groups, the degree of ionization being pH-dependent see section 2.
Only the form which predominates at pH 7 is shown in the figure. It will be seen that the side chain of histidine contains an imidazole ring, while that of tryptophan includes a double-ringed structure called an indole. In tyrosine the aromatic ring is linked to -OH to form a phenolic group.
Glutamic acid and aspartic acid contain a carboxyl group in their side chains, which is converted to an amide group in glutamine and asparagine. The side chains of lysine and arginine contain amino groups, which in the case of arginine forms part of a guanidine structure.
The R groups of valine, leucine and isoleucine have a branched-chain aliphatic hydrocarbon structure while proline, as mentioned previously, is an imino acid. Methionine and cysteine contain sulphur, which in the case of cysteine is present as part of a sulphydryl -SH group. Cysteine is readily oxidized to form the dimeric compound cystine, the two component cysteine units being linked by a disulphide bridge.
CO,H Thus, amino acids with a considerable variety of side chain characteristics are found in proteins. As we shall see later, this explains the range of properties shown by these macromolecules. These are often represented at right angles to each other on a single plane, as in Section 2.
However, it must be realized that this is done entirely for convenience, since a page of a book is two-dimensional and thus lends itself to a two- dimensional representation of structure. If we consider the bonds involving the a-carbon of an amino acid, we see that two different spatial arrangements, or stereoisomeric forms, are possible: the structure depicted in Fig. Error rating book.
Biocatalytic potential of microorganisms have been employed for centuries to produce bread, wine, vinegar and other common products without understanding the biochemical basis of their ingredients. Microbial enzymes have gained interest for their widespread uses in industries and medicine owing to their stability, catalytic activity, and ease of production and optimization than plant and animal enzymes.
The use of enzymes in various industries e. Microbial enzymes are capable of degrading toxic chemical compounds of industrial and domestic wastes phenolic compounds, nitriles, amines etc.
Here in this review, we highlight and discuss current technical and scientific involvement of microorganisms in enzyme production and their present status in worldwide enzyme market. PDF Drive offered in: English. Second enzymes. With the assistance of a co-author, this popular student textbook has been updated.
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