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May 10, 2016 at 12:12 vote accept CommunityBot
May 9, 2016 at 21:36 comment added David Remember that Wikipedia is only as good as its contributors. It does not claim to be correct, only to be correctable. Like anyone else, I could just go in and change the entry, but I have initiated a discussion about the lyase/hydrolase question I raised in my answer, in order to try to obtain consensus before making a correction.
May 9, 2016 at 12:54 answer added David timeline score: 4
May 9, 2016 at 12:37 comment added FoldedChromatin so that the enzyme does not catalyze the back reaction immediately after creating the product....so the enzyme attaches to the substrate using the lock and key model, it catalyzes the reaction, lets go of the product because the motif doesnt fit, then when the product is present in sufficient concentration it attaches to another site on the enzyme changing the binding motif so that the product is accomodated and then the back reaction is catalyzed..
May 9, 2016 at 12:35 comment added FoldedChromatin I am a bit confused here by your first statement, because not all enzymes are bidirectional. Most reactions which involve the breakage of an ATP or other energy molecules are not bidirectional for the same enzyme. Or even if they are it involves some sort of modulation. Next, a ligase may be a synthase but not all synthase are ligase. For me a ligase quiet literally relates to a class of enzyme related to DNA/RNA polymerization. The last question sort of relates to my statement on modulation, that if an enzyme was able to catalyze a bidirectional reaction then a checkpoint would be required...
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