Enzymes and Inhibitors
Amino Acids
Equations and Their Meanings
Sequencing
Bonds and Interactions
100

The variable that an enzyme can lower

What is activation energy?

100

The amount of different Amino Acids in our body.

What is 20 amino acids?

100

The equation for the specificity constant

What is Kcat/Km?

100

The purpose of amino acid sequencing.

What is identifying a protein?

100

The interaction that occurs between non polar molecules in an aqueous environment.

What is hydrophobic interaction? 

200

The form of substrate that is best fit to the site of an enzyme

What is the intermediate form? 

200

The amount of positive and negative amino acids, respectively

What is three and two?

200

The equation that describes initial velocity of an enzyme turning substrate into product (assuming MM kinetics)

What is V0=Vmax[S]/Km + [S]?

200

The instrument used to identify the photons of an amino acid.

What is  a spectrophotometer? 

200

The strongest type of bonds.

What is a covalent bond?

300

The units on the y-axis of a Lineweaver-Burk Plot

What is seconds per molar?

300

The amount of essential amino acids in our body

What is nine?

300

What Km represents

What is enzyme affinity to substrate?

300

The purification protein process that finds the n terminal amino acid of an amino acid sequence

What is Edman Degradation? 

300
How Van der Waals interactions occur.

What is two uncharged atoms coming very close together?

400

The three reversible inhibitors

What is competitive, uncompetitive, and noncompetitive?

400

The amino acid that hydrogen bonds to the oxygen in myoglobin

What is histidine?

400

The Henderson–Hasselbalch equation.

What is pH = pKa + log([A-/HA])?

400

The amount of times Edman degradation can be used on an amino acid sequence.

What is 40 times?

400

The bond that occurs between amino acids.

What is a peptide bond?

500

The most common enzyme in the world

What is RuBisCo?

500

The amino acid that contains four carbons and two nitrogens in its R group.

What is histidine?

500

The initial velocity equation of a noncompetitive inhibitor.

What is V0=((Vmax/alpha)[S])/(Km+[S])?

500

The full names of the two reducing agents that can remove disulfide bonds.

What is Bmercaptoethanol and Dithiothreitol?

500

The interaction that can occur between lysine and aspartate.

What is a salt bridge?