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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
Which substrate is digested by the enzyme protease?
Proteases break down proteins by hydrolysis (addition of a water molecule to break a bond) into amino acids. The substrate the protease enzyme works on is protein. Enzymes are often named for the substrates they catalyse (or break down).
Where does you protease work?
Proteases break down protein, usually in the small intestine.
What substrate is digested by enzym protease?
Protein
How is protease related to AIDS?
The third class of antiretroviral drugs developed against HIV were the protease inhibitors. These work far back in the life cycle of HIV, after host cell integration but before budding. These drugs affect the enzyme protease, which is used to cut up the HIV protein to be packaged into virions. When the cell produces HIV proteins, the raw material is in a long connected string. The enzyme protease acts as a "scissor" to cut up the string into the protein for each virion. Protease inhibitors prevent protease from doing this. They resemble pieces of the protein string that protease usually cuts. This disrupts the cutting process, which prevents the chain from being cut into small pieces, which prevents HIV from making copies of itself.
Why is trichloroacetic acid used in protease assay?
Trichloroacetic acid is used in protease assays as a protein precipitation agent. It helps to denature proteins and disrupt protein-protein interactions, allowing for the measurement of protease activity in a sample by separating the proteins from the reaction mixture.
What enzyme speeds up the breakdown of protein foods?
The enzyme which breaks down proteins (polypeptides) is called protease.
Why doesn't protease digest itself?
Good question, but once you think about it, the answer is quite simple. Protease needs to grab on to something (a protein) in order to digest it. It cannot grab onto itself. More specifically, proteases are designed to recognise specific proteins or protein sequences which they bind to and then cut or break up the protein at. The protease cannot turn around on itself in order to catalyse this reaction. This answer isn't quite correct. In your answer you act as if there is only one pepsin molecule. If that was the case then indeed pepsin cannot 'grab onto itself'. However the question should have been : why doesn't pepsin digest other pepsin molecules. To find the answer to that you would have to look closer into what kind of atoms the molecules are made of and why they do not 'react' with eachother.
Which digestive enzyme begins chemical digestion of protein?
Protease
What would happen if you didnt have protease?
Protein wouldn't digest.
What is the enzyme for a protein substrate?
Protease enzymes, such as trypsin or pepsin, are responsible for breaking down protein substrates into smaller peptides and amino acids by catalyzing hydrolysis of peptide bonds.
