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Function: Amylase is an enzyme that is responsible for the breaking of the bonds in starches, polysaccharides, and complex carbohydrates to be turned into simple sugars that will be easier to absorb. Clinical Significance: Amylase also has medical history in the use of Pancreatic Enzyme Replacement Therapy (PERT). One of the components is ...
Cytochrome P450 enzymes also function to metabolize potentially toxic compounds, including drugs and products of endogenous metabolism such as bilirubin, principally in the liver. The Human Genome Project has identified 57 human genes coding for the various cytochrome P450 enzymes.
5' AMP-activated protein kinase or AMPK or 5' adenosine monophosphate-activated protein kinase is an enzyme (EC 2.7.11.31) that plays a role in cellular energy homeostasis, largely to activate glucose and fatty acid uptake and oxidation when cellular energy is low.
Peptidyl-glycine alpha-amidating monooxygenase, or PAM, is an enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of an n+1 residue long peptide with a C-terminal glycine into an n-residue peptide with a terminal amide group. In the process, one molecule of O 2 is consumed and the glycine residue is removed from the peptide and converted to glyoxylic acid. [5]
The transaminase enzymes are important in the production of various amino acids, and measuring the concentrations of various transaminases in the blood is important in the diagnosing and tracking many diseases. [citation needed] For example, the presence of elevated transaminases can be an indicator of liver and cardiac damage.
Because a phosphatase enzyme catalyzes the hydrolysis of its substrate, it is a subcategory of hydrolases. [1] Phosphatase enzymes are essential to many biological functions, because phosphorylation (e.g. by protein kinases) and dephosphorylation (by phosphatases) serve diverse roles in cellular regulation and signaling. [2]
Surface proteins regulate functions such as localization, inhibition, and internalization. Enzyme binding to the surface brings it in close accord with certain substrates in the pericellular space in order to regulate function of the MMPs. Localization allows them to degrade specific elements of the EMC by close cell surface association. [7]
The two NAT enzymes in humans are NAT1 and NAT2. [4] Mice and rats express three enzymes, NAT1, NAT2, and NAT3. [4] NAT1 and NAT2 have been found to be closely related in species examined thus far, since the two enzymes share 75-95% of their amino acid sequence. [9] [10] Both also have an active site cysteine residue (Cys 68) in the N-terminal ...