Constitutive enzyme
As constitutive enzymes are enzymes referred to regardless of the environment and the state of metabolism continuously and at a constant rate from the organism to be synthesized. Most of these enzymes are essential for the metabolism and are therefore always newly synthesized .
In contrast to this are the adaptive enzymes , which are only synthesized when required.
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- Donald Voet, Judith Voet, Charlotte W. Pratt: Textbook of Biochemistry . 1st edition. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim 2002, ISBN 3-527-30519-X , p. 859.
Web links
- Definition at www.wissen.de viewed on December 28, 2008