Home | Health
Salute to the catalyzing capacity. Scientifically we regard a catalyst to be simply a medium for a process to take place. But have we ever thought that what would be the situation if the medium is absent? Same is in the case of body's metabolism. You intake a balanced diet but you don't have the proper channel for the digestion of the nutrients. Do you think the purpose of your diet will get served? Very likely the body's metabolic function too needs a proper catalytic action to generate more energy and meet the body's requirement. What is responsible for all these functions? To serve the body's different metabolic activities, the catalytic function is of course played by the enzymes. The rule is same for all animals. Catalyst in the digestive system - Among the key nutrients of the food taken, carbohydrate and protein molecules are broken into minute particles with the help of enzymes. Unless these molecules are brought down to such a position they cannot be absorbed by the walls of the small intestine for the further process. Starch cannot be digested as it is. Actually the complex molecules in the form of a chain are made into simpler forms like maltose for the absorption process to take place. Only can then your consumed food will be able to provide energy to your body. This is one way enzyme takes part of the of the body's metabolic activities. - There is no need to think that enzymes are only required by the human beings. In the broader perspective both the food habits of feeding on flesh and fibers as well as healthy green leafy herbs, you need enzymes for digestive and metabolic activities. The animals those are exclusively herbivorous like the cows, goats, horses etc need a special type of enzyme for digestion process. The cell wall of the plant fibers is composed of cellulose. For the decomposition of cellulose the enzyme needed is cellulase. Direction for metabolic chain reaction The metabolic process of glycolysis occurring in the cell largely depends on the enzymes to take place. Without the support of the enzymes the entire chain reaction in the metabolic activity cannot be directed. The reaction of ATP with glucose to generate glucose-6-phosphate in the presence of hexokinase within in a cell is entirely dependent on the functional enzymes. Thus as cell is the basic unit of any living organism and the core of metabolism begins from here, you can well understand how important are enzymes for the metabolic activity of the whole system.
Information and Articles: http://www.mastersmba.com
Providing Information on various topics, please browse our other Articles for more informative resources, we house information on every topic imaginable so regardless of your needs you can be assured to find the answer here. If you wish to reprint this on your own website, simply click the "Web Version" in the right menu, and you are presented with a pre-formatted document to use.
A lot of the information is written by the Master Article team, and published exclusively on the MastersMBA.com website, and we do our best to research all information to ensure it's as accurate as possible. However at times we also publish documents given to us by other sources, we do examine these documents to ensure they are as accurate and correct as possible however at times they discuss highly specialized fields making it hard to authenticate the validity of every fact in the document. These are written by specialists in their respective fields, and we do trust their integrity and judgment however it's always a good idea when doing any research to consult a number of sources and form your own conclusion based on a number of view points.
