sarabthny
I have to write a paper on the novel enzyme maltose 1-epimerase.
My question: what fxn does the enzyme have on the human body as a whole; how would it affect the body if it was missing.
I know the digestive system creates maltose by breaking down starch eaten using enzyme in salive,amylase, its the 2nd step of digestion. In the process: starch-> *maltose* -> glucose ->..., this isomerase catalyzes the two anomers of maltose in a reversible rxn: *α-maltose β-maltose*. Didn't say if balanced rxn (I don't think so).
What I can’t find - is WHY? How does the rxn benefit the body; is it the chem. process, speeding up degradation, or the rxn produces energy(heat)? Or is one isomer superior?
A journal in Plant Physiology on β-maltose says it is the “metabolically active anomer”. But the N.W.E. says that β-maltose in the human body is cellobiose and it cannot be hydrolyzed to glucose (indigestible;not energy-producing).
Please help me! Sources if possible. Thank!! Sara
My question: what fxn does the enzyme have on the human body as a whole; how would it affect the body if it was missing.
I know the digestive system creates maltose by breaking down starch eaten using enzyme in salive,amylase, its the 2nd step of digestion. In the process: starch-> *maltose* -> glucose ->..., this isomerase catalyzes the two anomers of maltose in a reversible rxn: *α-maltose β-maltose*. Didn't say if balanced rxn (I don't think so).
What I can’t find - is WHY? How does the rxn benefit the body; is it the chem. process, speeding up degradation, or the rxn produces energy(heat)? Or is one isomer superior?
A journal in Plant Physiology on β-maltose says it is the “metabolically active anomer”. But the N.W.E. says that β-maltose in the human body is cellobiose and it cannot be hydrolyzed to glucose (indigestible;not energy-producing).
Please help me! Sources if possible. Thank!! Sara