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Protease Inhibitors are a class of medications used to treat patients with the HIV virus.
They are designed to prevent an already infected cell from reproducing (therefore inhibiting the virus from copying itself).
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What is inhibition and why enzymes need to be inhibited?
- Inhibition of an enzyme is to inhibit the catalytic activity of the enzyme. - Because, by blocking or inhibiting an enzyme's activity can kill a pathogen or correct a metabolic imbalance. Example : Inhibition of HIV protease.
What is protease inhibition?
Protease Inhibitors are a class of medications used to treat patients with the HIV virus. They are designed to prevent an already infected cell from reproducing (therefore inhibiting the virus from copying itself).
What is the formula for protease?
Protease is an enzyme. It is essentially a protein. Protease is not a compound and therefore its formula cannot be given out. Protease are a class of enzymes involved in digesting proteins. The basic mode of action can be described as: Protein + Protease -----> Digested protein + protease Since enzymes do not react in a biochemical reaction (they are merely catalysis), protease appears on both sides of the reaction shown above
What does protease producE?
Protease breaks down Protein into amino acids
What is a Protease Paunch?
"Protease Paunch" is an effect that occurs with some people who are taking a protease inhibitor drug as part of an anti-retroviral therapy to treat HIV. Protease inhibitors are widely used as part of a drug regimen to treat HIV, and many people taking the medicines have noticed a bulge or distended abdomen. In it's most severe cases, it can appear as if the person is pregnant. This can happen to both men and women, but does not affect everyone who is taking a protease inhibitor. The "protease paunch" is a nickname given to the more general condition of lipodystrophy, which is a shifting of body fat in a person. In addition to the paunch, a deposit of fat on the top of the neck can occur, often called a 'buffalo hump', as well as fat can be lost from the facial area and arms and legs.
Is protease an enzyme?
No, there is a great difference between lipaseand protease. lipase: digest fats and oils into glycerol and fatty acids. protease: digest protein into amino acids.
Increasing the substrate concentration in an enzymatic reaction could overcome what?
competitive inhibition
What are protease enymes?
The protease enzyme helps in the breakdown of proteins present in a cell
What evidence is there that protease enzyme came from a human?
Protease enzme came from a human.
What does protease do?
Protease is an enzyme that breaks down proteins to amino acids and peptides.
What is the Inhibition of the bone marrow?
Myelosuppression is inhibition of the bone marrow.
Is neurotoxin or protease more dangerous?
Though they are both inhibitors, I would say Protease.
