Answer
Lysozyme cleaves between the 4th and 5th sugar and will preferably bind (NAG), and distort the conformation of the 4th sugar (D) accelerates the reaction. Moreover, since the lysozyme active site can bind at lease six monosaccharide units, (NAG), would be more tightly bound to the enzyme than (NAG) 4, and this additional binding free energy would be applied to distorting the D ring to its half-chair conformation, thereby facilitating the reaction.
Work Step by Step
Lysozyme cleaves between the 4th and 5th sugar and will preferably bind (NAG), and distort the conformation of the 4th sugar (D) accelerates the reaction. Moreover, since the lysozyme active site can bind at lease six monosaccharide units, (NAG), would be more tightly bound to the enzyme than (NAG) 4, and this additional binding free energy would be applied to distorting the D ring to its half-chair conformation, thereby facilitating the reaction.
