You are a scientist working for EnzyProfit (a pharmaceutical company). You have been tasked with making a new human enzyme will bring in billion dollar profits when it goes on the market. Hint: think about what cellular process people would be willing to pay a whole lot of money for. This is a completely new project, you cannot use an enzyme that already exists in the human body. You can however, choose a reaction that already occurs in the body, but you have to design an enzyme that optimizes the reaction and give your rationale as to why you need a new enzyme to catalyze a reaction that already occurs.
In designing your enzyme, you must tell me the following:
1. It’s name
2. What is its molecular properties? What kind class of macromolecule is it?
3. Is it affected by temperature (low/high?) and how? Is it affected by an acidic or basic environment?
4. The specific chemical reaction that it will catalyze. I don’t need specific amounts of the molecules, only what the reactants and products will be
5. What is the substrate for this enzyme?
6. Does it require an allosteric site? why? how does this site regulate the enzyme? is it an activation or inhibitory site?
7. Will it require a cofactor? Why?
8. Will it be activated by ATP through phosphorylation?
9. How will the enzyme be stopped within the body once it does its job? Will you use a competitive inhibitor?
10. Why would EnzyProfit invest in your enzyme? Why is your enzyme important at the cellular level?
