Question

Why are hydrolysis reactions important to the performance of all biochemical operations, even those receiving only soluble substrate?

Answer 1

SOLUTIONS-

                HYDROLYSIS- consist two words- HYDRO- Water; LYSIS- To unbind or split. It is a reaction of breaking down bonds between molecule or long chains in presence of water.

                It can be of 3 types Salts, Base, Acid.

SALTS- SODIUM ACETATE + WATERACETIC ACID+ SODIUM + HYDROXIDE

BASE-    AMMONIA+WATERAMONIUM + HYDROXIDE

ACID-    ACETIC ACID+ WATERACETATE+HYDRONIUM

SIGNIFICANCE-

                It helps to breaks down of any polymeric chains, it can be protein, carbohydrate, fats, salts, etc. We know that in living organism for the life always catabolism and anabolism is going on. Biochemically in majority catabolism taken place through HYDROLYSIS reaction and anabolism through CONDENSATION reaction. This whole process continues in presence of enzyme as follows-

PROTEIN- Proteinases.

LIPID- Lipase.

SUGAR- Amylase.

1. Amino acid requirement for living organism full fill through hydrolysis of peptides.
2. Hydrolysis plays a major role in energy metabolism and storage. Require energy instantly supplied from breaking of pyrophosphate linkage of ATP. [ ATP- iP+ADP]
3. Breaking down of poly, di, mono, or oligosaccharide by hydrolysis reaction results production of glucose which burn inside the cell to release energy.

To summaries- Living organism need energy produced through hydrolysis reaction, living organism cannot use many polymeric compound rather use the micro molecule such as Amino acid, which comes through hydrolysis reaction.

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