Effect specificity

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Effect specificity , occasionally also effect specificity , is a term from the biochemistry of enzymes . Effect specificity exists when of a large number of reactions that a substrate can enter into (e.g. hydrolysis, oxidation, rearrangement, etc.), only the reaction catalyzed by the corresponding enzyme takes place. The other reactions that the substrate could enter into are not supported by this enzyme. The effect specificity is a classification ( enzyme classification according to IUPAC and IUBMB ) for enzymes.

Effect specificity means the property that each enzyme usually only causes a very specific change in the substrate.

For example, the enzyme urease hydrolytically splits urea into ammonia and carbon dioxide. The urease does not have a reducing effect on the substrate.

literature

  • Jeremy M. Berg, John L. Tymoczko, Lubert Stryer : Biochemistry. 6th edition, Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg 2007. ISBN 978-3-8274-1800-5 .
  • Donald Voet, Judith G. Voet: Biochemistry. 3rd edition, John Wiley & Sons, New York 2004. ISBN 0-471-19350-X .
  • Bruce Alberts , Alexander Johnson, Peter Walter, Julian Lewis, Martin Raff, Keith Roberts: Molecular Biology of the Cell , 5th Edition, Taylor & Francis 2007, ISBN 978-0-8153-4106-2 .