Fundamentals of Biochemistry: Life at the Molecular Level 5th Edition

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ISBN 10: 1118918401
ISBN 13: 978-1-11891-840-1

Chapter 11 - Enzymatic Catalysis - Exercises - Page 359: 28

Answer

Chymotrypsin is a digestive enzyme. The function of chymotripsin is to degrade a wide variety of ingested proteins, therefore, their component amino acids can be recovered quiet easily. Thus, broad specificity of enzyme chymotripsin is advantageous in vivo. Broad substrate specificity would be non advantageous for some other proteases those functions outside of the digestive system because it might degrade proteins than target.

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Chymotrypsin is a digestive enzyme. The function of chymotripsin is to degrade a wide variety of ingested proteins, therefore, their component amino acids can be recovered quiet easily. Thus, broad specificity of enzyme chymotripsin is advantageous in vivo. Broad substrate specificity would be non advantageous for some other proteases those functions outside of the digestive system because it might degrade proteins than target.
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