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In biology, a substrate is the surface on which an organism (such as a plant, fungus, or animal) lives.A substrate can include biotic or abiotic materials and animals. For example, encrusting algae that lives on a rock (its substrate) can be itself a substrate for an animal that lives on top of the algae.
Substrate (vivarium), the material used in the bottom of a vivarium or terrarium; Substrate (aquarium), the material used in the bottom of an aquarium; Substrate (building), natural stone, masonry surface, ceramic and porcelain tiles; Substrate (chemistry), the reactant which is consumed during a catalytic or enzymatic reaction
Similarly, a substrate is called 'fluorogenic' if it gives rise to a fluorescent product when acted on by an enzyme. [citation needed] For example, curd formation (rennet coagulation) is a reaction that occurs upon adding the enzyme rennin to milk. In this reaction, the substrate is a milk protein (e.g., casein) and the enzyme is rennin. The ...
In molecular biology, substrate presentation is a biological process that activates a protein. The protein is sequestered away from its substrate and then activated by release and exposure to its substrate. [1] [2] A substrate is typically the substance on which an enzyme acts but can also be a protein surface to which a ligand binds. In the ...
If this is the case, the substrate analog is called an inhibitory substrate analog, a suicide substrate, or a Trojan horse substrate. [7] An example of a substrate analog that is also a suicide substrate/Trojan horse substrate is penicillin, which is an inhibitory substrate analog of peptidoglycan. [8] Some substrate analogs can still allow the ...
Compared to oxygen, sulfur's extra d orbital makes it larger (by 0.4 Å) [29] and softer, allows it to form longer bonds (d C-X and d X-H by 1.3-fold), and gives it a lower pK a (by 5 units). [30] Serine is therefore more dependent than cysteine on optimal orientation of the acid-base triad members to reduce its p K a [ 30 ] in order to achieve ...
Metabolite channeling [1] is the passing of the intermediary metabolic product of one enzyme directly to another enzyme or active site without its release into solution. When several consecutive enzymes of a metabolic pathway channel substrates between themselves, [2] this is called a metabolon. [3]
S1 and S2 of the P-pterin and S1 of the Q-pterin were locationed 2.4 A away from the Mo, and S2 of Q-pterin was located 3.1 A away. This pterin asymmetry may be the result of the trans-effect of the oxo-group weakening the S2-Mo bond, which is located directly opposite the oxo-group.