Building Block and Bonds
The monomer unit of a protein
What is an Amino Acid
The total chemical activity of a living organism
What is Metabolism
The most used activated carrier
What is ATP
A folded structure of proteins that are energetically favorable
What is a conformation
Any substance that binds a protein
What is a ligand
Strong bond that results from sharing electrons
What are Covalent Bonds
Any isolated system moves towards disorder
What is the Second Law of Thermodynamics
Activated carrier that is involved in anabolic reactions
What is NADPH
The two most common folding patterns of proteins
What is alpha-helix and beta-sheet
The type of inhibition that occurs when mimic the substrate
What is Competitive
The monomer unit of nucleic acids
What are nucleotides
Catalyze reactions and promote the acceleration of reactions
What are enzymes
The addition of a phosphate to another molecule
What is phosphorylation
The third level of protein organization
What is tertiary
Enzymes that have two or more binding sites
The type of bond between amino acids
The portion of a system’s energy that can perform work
What is free energy
NADH is used in these types of reactions
What is catabolic
Noncovalent interactions formed by ______ is considered the quaternary level
What are multi-subunits
A way to turn on/off proteins, making them reversible
What is phosphorylation
Weaker bonds that are enormously important in biology
What are hydrogen bonds
Reactions that share can share intermediates to make overall free-energy negative
What are coupled reactions
An energetically favorable breakdown of a molecule using water
What is hydrolysis
The two negatively charged amino acids
What is Aspartic Acid and Glutamic Acids
A way to separate proteins by charge using a gel-like matrix
What is electropherisis