Chapter 6, Problem 20RQ

Summary Introduction

To review:

The reason for the inherent specificity of enzymes to react with one stereoisomeric form of the substrate and convert into the product.

Introduction:

The enzyme specificity is referred to as the property of the enzyme to bind to a single type of substrate. The stereoisomeric forms are the ones in which two molecules are made of the same atoms and have the same sequence of bonded atoms. They differ only in the arrangement of the atoms, thereby changing the three-dimensional conformation.