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Launch ↗ Active Site Adventures
Enzyme diagrams usually show one substrate sliding neatly into an active site, and leave out what makes enzyme activity hard to predict. In this game you are the enzyme, moving through a crowded cytoplasm where pH, temperature and substrate concentration all decide how well you work.
Launch InteractiveTopics covered
- Enzymes as catalysts and activation energy
- Active site shape and substrate specificity
- Competitive and noncompetitive inhibition
- Effects of pH and temperature, and denaturation
- Substrate concentration and reaction rate
- Glycolysis, ATP and NADH
- Glycogen synthesis and glycosidic bonds
