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What are hydrolytic enzymes?

Dan Lazuran  Follow

Some textbook authors have treated it as such, but I reject the idea and don’t call it that in my books. An enzyme chemically changes its substrate—it catalyzes a chemical reaction. Hemoglobin doesn’t chemically change the oxygen it binds; it temporarily binds it and then releases it in the same form that it “found” it. So I don’t consider it an enzyme.

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Arslan Siddique  Follow

hydrolase enzymes are catabolic enzymes that break down the chemical bond between atoms of large molecules in the presence of water. Some of the hydrolase enzymes includes: proteases, nucleases, amylases, helices and lipases.

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Art Cronk  Follow

Hydrolytic enzymes are those that break the chemical bond between atoms of large molecule in the presence of water. It catalyses the following reaction is a hydrolase: A–B + H2O → A–OH + B–H.

Proteases, nucleases, amylases, helices, lipase come under hydrolase enzyme or hydrolytic enzymes.

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Nan.s  Follow

Enzymatic hydrolysis uses the chemical interaction of an enzyme like cellulase or trypsin to loosen the cell wall connections and make lipid extraction easier after cell breakdown.

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Astrophysics and Astronomy  Follow

Hydrolytic enzymes, or Hydrolases, are those that catalyze Hydrolysis. In simple words: these enzymes split molecules in two pieces using water, one H is attached to one piece, one OH is attached to the other. Each enzyme is specific for the particular kind of Substrate, chemical bond, and which piece gets the H and the OH, but they all use a molecule of water to do the splitting.

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Daanish Acadmey  Follow

It is a red protein responsible for transporting oxygen in the blood of vertebrates. Its molecule comprises four subunits, each containing an iron atom bound to a haem group.

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Angela Privin  Follow

“Hydrolase” is one of the 6 categories of enzymes in the Enzyme Commission nomenclature system for enzymes. There are many many different enzymes that carry out hydrolysis reactions.

Without knowing what hydrolysis reaction you are asking about, there is no way to know what enzyme carries out that hydrolysis.

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Banti Singh (???? ????)  Follow

The enzyme lowers the activation energy and makes the rxn go. Some enzymes are reversible.

In one direction; Add a water, cut something in two.

In the opposite direction, remove a water and glue two things together.

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Carmen Burds  Follow

Hi there…

Hydrolytic (Hydro- water, lytic- break down) enzymes are generally catabolic enzymes that break the chemical bond between atoms of large molecule in the presence of water. The water plays crucial role in such electro-nucleophilic driven reactions. Such enzymes comes under Hydrolases and have enzyme commission number or EC 3. All the proteases, nucleases, amylases, helices, lipase come under hydrolase enzyme or hydrolytic enzymes.

For example AB+H20= AOH+ BH

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