What is enzyme-substrate specificity?

Answer 1

It means that an enzyme will only work on one specific substrate at a time, because no meaningful biochemical activity can occur without their absolute specificity.

We are talking about 30,000 bio-enzymatically controlled Biochemical reactions.

In the Chem Lab a product yield of 60 percent is a huge achievement.

In the Body anything less than a 100 percent yieldwould swiftly result in the Cell being overwhelmed by the useless by-products of these 30,000 biochemical Reactions.

Answer 2

Commonly in reference to enzymatic fuel cells, selectivity is the ability of an enzyme to interact with a very specific fuel source. So potentially the byproduct of one oxidation step could be the step for another, separate enzymes reaction. The substrate reacting with the enzyme - creating the enzyme-substrate complex - is where the enzymes selectivity comes into play.

Answer 3

Enzymes are specifically designed to only bind to certain molecules. If a molecule comes into contact with an enzyme and it is not its specific substrate it will not bind and no reaction will occur

Answer 4

Enzyme-substrate specificity means that a substrate can fit into an enzyme similar to a key fitting into a lock. The active site of the enzyme is what determines its specificity. An enzyme can hence catalyze a reaction with a specific substrate, such as amylase catalyzing starch molecules. During these reactions, the substrate is held in a precise optimum position to create and break bonds, catalyzing the molecule.

Answer 5

An enzyme is specific to one and only one reaction.

So if we consider Enzyme A, which combines X and Y to make Z, that is the ONLY reaction it will catalyze.

Answer 6

This means that every enzyme is specific for a certain substance called the substrtate. The enzyme can only identify its substarte and work on it.

Answer 7

Enzymes to be substrate specific means to be perticular in the kind of proteins they can catalze.

Substrate- carbohydrates, proteins, lipid nucleic acid

Answer 8

enzyme-substrate specificity means that only a certain enzyme can fit into a substrate. it is kind of like a key-lock specificity where only one key can fit into that lock