Zusammenfassung der Ressource
METABOLIC PROCESSES
- sum of all chemical reactions that take place in the cell
- catabolism
- break down of substances
- anabolism/synthesis
- formation of new products
- metabolic processes take place through pathways
- pathways are controlled by enzymes
- ENZYMES
- catalyst that can speed up reactions by lowering the energy of activation
- are substrate specific
- are unchanged as result of reaction
- efficiency affected by pH
- catalyze both forward and backward reactions
- standard suffix -ase
- cofactors
- can be coenzymes, organic cofactors
- vitamins
- inorganic cofactors are metals