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- W3103164820 abstract "Nature makes use of the tools that I have been developing, and does so in the most extraordinary and subtle manner. After all, she has had about four billion years to come up with solutions to problems with which human chemists have striven seriously for only a century or so. Most of the reactions that go on in organisms—including you—are controlled by the proteins called ‘enzymes’ (a name derived from the Greek words for ‘in leaven’, as in yeast). Enzymes are biological catalysts (Reaction 11) that are extraordinarily specific and highly effective in their role. One of these complex molecules might serve as the merest foot soldier in the army of reactions going on inside you, with a role such as severing the bond between two specific groups of atoms in a target molecule. Because their function may be highly specific, enzyme molecules need to be large: they have to recognize the molecule they act on, act on it, then release it so that they can act again. Thus, they have to have several functions built into them. As you will see, enzymes are the ultimate in functional blindness: they feel around in their surroundings in order to identify their substrate, the species they can act on. Life is ultimately blind chemical progress guided by touch. I am going to introduce you to one particular group of enzymes, the ‘proteases’, and focus on one example from this group, namely chymotrypsin. A protease is a traitor to its kind: it is a protein that breaks down other proteins. It plays a role in digestion, of course, but its range is much wider. One protease enables a lucky sperm to eat through the cell wall of an egg and ensure its at least temporary immortality. Another facilitates the clotting of blood to terminate possibly fatal bleeding. Chymotrypsin itself is an enzyme that is secreted from the pancreas into the intestine, and makes an essential contribution to the process of digestion. Its name is derived slightly circuitously from the Greek words for animal fluid, a bodily ‘humour’, and rubbing, as it was obtained as a fluid by rubbing the pancreas." @default.
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- W3103164820 title "Food for Thought: Enzyme Action" @default.
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