Many of the drugs used in medicine modify the actions of enzymes or other molecules by binding to either the active site of the enzyme or to a site different from the active site. The drugs that bind to the active site of the enzymes tend to have more adverse side effects that the drugs that bind to other sites of the enzyme. This is the reason why researchers are focusing on these types of drugs. You design a drug that binds to a site of an enzyme that is different from the active site of the enzyme. This allows the active site to bind to substrate easier. The drug you designed is ____________. Group of answer choices a pH activation molecule a temperature activation molecule an allosteric inhibitor an allosteric activator
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Our drugs that work on receptors can be agonists or antagonists. So they would bind to the receptor and cause the same reaction (agonist) or bind to the receptor, blocking the action (antagonists). But our drugs can work on enzymes as well. An enzyme is a protein that catalyses or speeds up a reaction. Name the most common way that our drugs affect enzymes.
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Enzymes increase the rate of a reaction in all of the following ways except donating a proton to the substrate. reacting chemically with the substrate. permanently binding the substrate. inducing strain on the substrate. orienting substrates. Enzymes are highly sensitive to pH and temperature because extremes of temperature and pH level change their ionization rate. changes in temperature and pH readily break their peptide bonds. pH and temperature affect their three-dimensional structure and their side chain chemistry. at extreme temperatures and pH levels, coenzymes add chemical groups to the substrate. changes in the environment raise their activation energy. Competitive inhibitors of enzymes work by fitting into a site other than the active site. increasing the activation energy of the enzyme-catalyzed reaction. fitting into the active site. changing the enzyme into an inactive form. altering the shape of the enzyme.
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