Biochemistry
Biochemistry
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ISBN: 9781305577206
Author: Reginald H. Garrett, Charles M. Grisham
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 14, Problem 11P

Answers to all problems are at the end of this book. Detailed solutions are available in the Student Solutions Manual. Study Guide, and Problems Book.

Assessing the-Metabolic Consequences of Life Without Enzymes The incredible catalytic power of enzymes can perhaps best be appreciated by imagining how challenging life would be without just one of the thousands of enzymes in the human body. For example, consider life without fnnctose-1,6-btsphosphatase, an enzyme in the gluconeogenesis pathway in Liver and kidneys (see Chapter 22). which helps product new glucose from the food we eat:

Fructose-1.6-blsphosphate + H2O → Fmrlose-6-P + Pi

The human brain requires glucose as its only energy source, and the typical brain consumes about 120 g (or 480 kilocalories) of glucose dally. Ordinarily, two pieces of sausage pizza could provide more than enough potential glucose to feed the brain for a day. According to a national fast-food chain, two pieces of sausage pizza provide 1340 kilocalories. 48% of which is from fat. Fats cannot be converted to glucose in gluconeogenesis, so that leaves 697 kilocalories potentially available for glucose synthesis. The first-order rate constant for the hydrolysis of fructose-l.6-bispliosphate in the absence of enzyme is 2 × 10-20 /sec. Calculate how long it would take to provide enough glucose for one day of brain activity from two pieces of sausage pizza without the enzyme.

The following graphs show the temperature and pH dependencies of four enzymes, A, Î’, X, and Y. Problems 12 through IS refer to these graphs.

Chapter 14, Problem 11P, Answers to all problems are at the end of this book. Detailed solutions are available in the Student

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