• An adaptive enzyme or inducible enzyme is an enzyme that is expressed only under conditions in which it is clearly of adaptive value, as opposed to a...
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    categories of pathogen, the adaptive immune system is highly specific to each particular pathogen the body has encountered. Adaptive immunity creates immunological...
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    An enzyme inhibitor is a molecule that binds to an enzyme and blocks its activity. Enzymes are proteins that speed up chemical reactions necessary for...
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    An immobilized enzyme is an enzyme, with restricted mobility, attached to an inert, insoluble material—such as calcium alginate (produced by reacting...
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  • is possible. This theory of adaptive mutation was first brought to academic attention in the 1980s by John Cairns. Adaptive mutation is a controversial...
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  • In evolutionary biology, fitness landscapes or adaptive landscapes (types of evolutionary landscapes) are used to visualize the relationship between genotypes...
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  • Enzyme promiscuity is the ability of an enzyme to catalyze an unexpected side reaction in addition to its main reaction. Although enzymes are remarkably...
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    non-protein chemical compound or metallic ion that is required for an enzyme's role as a catalyst (a catalyst is a substance that increases the rate of...
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  • only be determined after the event. Adaptive evolution in the human genome Adaptive memory Adaptive mutation Adaptive system Anti-predator adaptation Body...
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    bioremediation process. Fungi that have been genetically modified with cold-adapted enzymes to tolerate differing pH levels and temperatures have been shown to...
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    metabolism, who funded his work. His PhD thesis was on "adaptive enzymes" (subsequently termed "induced enzyme synthesis"). His account of the phenomenon inspired...
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  • Najnin T, Taha, Ertan H, 2017. Biotechnological improvements of cold-adapted enzymes: commercialization via an integrated approach. In: Margesin, Rosa (Ed...
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    A diffusion-limited enzyme catalyses a reaction so efficiently that the rate limiting step is that of substrate diffusion into the active site, or product...
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  • side-activities of genes and thus proteins this is called Enzyme promiscuity. For example, enzymes can sometimes catalyse more than just one reaction, even...
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    different functions in cells, such as storage and transport of proteins, enzymes and signal transduction proteins, or infectious diseases. The abundance...
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    not yet compatible with selection for catalytic activity of enzymes. Methods to evolve enzymes were developed in the 1990s and brought the technique to a...
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    Lysosome (redirect from Lysosomal enzymes)
    hydrolytic enzymes break down the pathogen. Lysosomes are a crucial part of innate immune system. Lysosomes also play a big role in adaptive immune system...
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  • in the presence of formate. This was one of the first examples of 'adaptive enzymes,' now understood as the rapid transcriptional activation of the gene...
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    Photosystem II (category Manganese enzymes)
    membrane of plants, algae, and cyanobacteria. Within the photosystem, enzymes capture photons of light to energize electrons that are then transferred...
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  • damage and prevent multiple phenotypes is known as the adaptive response. Since the adaptive response is able to prevent the possibility of different...
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    Problems involving rural water access and development, for example: Adapting enzyme-based microbial water quality analysis to remote areas in low-income...
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    important source of such enzymes, yielding thermostable enzymes such as Taq polymerase (from Thermus aquaticus), and cold-adapted enzymes such as shrimp alkaline...
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  • three categories of para-rowing, also known as adaptive rowing Proteinase 3, a serine protease enzyme expressed mainly in neutrophil granulocytes PR-3...
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  • for adaptive evolution. Evolvability is the ability of a population of organisms to not merely generate genetic diversity, but to generate adaptive genetic...
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  • than other taxa. Moreover, the Adaptive Modulation Hypothesis does not apply for nectarivores and sugar-digesting enzymes, meaning that two lineages of...
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    Extracellular enzymes or exoenzymes are synthesized inside the cell and then secreted outside the cell, where their function is to break down complex...
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  • Enzyme induction is a process in which a molecule (e.g. a drug) induces (i.e. initiates or enhances) the expression of an enzyme. Enzyme inhibition can...
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  • Starvation response in animals (including humans) is a set of adaptive biochemical and physiological changes, triggered by lack of food or extreme weight...
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    metalloenzyme. An artificial enzyme is a synthetic organic molecule or ion that recreates one or more functions of an enzyme. It seeks to deliver catalysis...
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    and allows the adaptive immune system to mount faster and stronger attacks each time this pathogen is encountered. Both innate and adaptive immunity depend...
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