By now the importance of enzymes should be obvious, but looking at issues of why

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By now the importance of enzymes should be obvious, but looking at issues of why they are so important, what goes wrong with them, how they are regulated, how they are produced, how they are controlled, how they are involved in pathways, why they are important in some medical conditions, and so on will help provide you with a much better understanding of these protein catalysts that are necessary for life to function. These postings should be very educational as well as emphasize how dependent we are on enzymes.. I need an outside source with in paragraph citation with works cited please. Use your own words..find soething intereting

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Answer: Enzymes are nothing but these are the specific amino acid sequences or we can say proteins which have catalytic activity. These enzymes are participating in various metabolic as well as respiratory reaction carried out inside our body. There is a different kind of enzymes such as digestive enzymes which digest the food which we eat, metabolic enzymes which metabolized the digested food into chemical energy. For example food which we eat is metabolized in our body and being converted into the ATP is carried out by the series of biochemical reactions known as Glycolysis which is carried out in two phases (i) The investment phase (where ATP is consumed) and (ii) Pay off phase (where ATP is formed) these reactions are catalyzed by a series of enzymes (Mehta S, 2011). In a rough estimate in our body enzymes enhance the reaction rate about million times and if this enzyme s are not present in the body then it is not possible to meet the body requirements and to sustain the life. Second, the enzymes are also necessary for our respiratory system such as cytochrome c-oxidase. If the functioning of this enzyme is inhibited then it causes the death of individual because the inhibition of this enzyme inhibits the ATP in the organism (Castresana et al. 1994). The above given are the only two examples of enzyme importance in our survival there is a number of enzymes which are crucial for our body ‘s proper functioning.

Reference:

1.Sweety Mehta (2011) Glycolysis- Animation and notes.

2. Castresana J, Lübben M, Saraste M, Higgins DG (June 1994). "Evolution of cytochrome oxidase, an enzyme older than atmospheric oxygen" . The EMBO Journal. 13 (11): 2516–25.

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