Respuesta :
Answer:
The given characteristics can be shown by Enzymes.
Explanation:
- Enzymes are substances, mostly proteins, that helps in increasing the speed or rate of a biochemical reaction (conversion of substrate to product) by reducing the activation energy barrier of the reaction.
- The enzymes which are made up of proteins have an specific location or region inside them which is called the Active Site.
- The biochemical reaction occurs at this active site.
- The specific substrate molecule(s) comes and associated with the active site of the enzyme, mostly by means of non-covalent interactions.
- By means of amino acid side chains (which have a definite pKa) the exact environment (oxidising or reducing) required for the chemical reaction to occur is maintained by the enzyme at its active site.
- After associating with its substrate(s) the enzyme undergoes certain conformational changes in order to position the substrate(s) in the correct orientation such the biochemical reaction can occur.
- After the products are formed, the enzyme further undergoes some conformational changes to release them.
- Enzymes are similar to transport proteins because:
- When the concentration of substrates is far more than that of the available enzymes molecules, then the enzymes would get saturated with substrates, like the transport proteins.
- The enzymes are highly specific for their substrates like the transport proteins.
- The enzymes undergo conformational changes during the biochemical reaction like the transport proteins.
- Both the rate of enzymatic reaction and membrane transport is regulated by the cell.