Biochemistry › Hydrolases
Which of the following best describes how a lysozyme works?
It cuts the bond in a polysaccharide, by holding six sugars in a row in its active site, and adding a water molecule, causing hydrolysis.
It hydrolyzes bonds in lipids, causing a split in a fatty acid chain.
It cuts a polysaccharide relatively slowly, facilitating a random, spontaneous collision between water and the sugar, with little intervention.
It is responsible for the cleaving of amino acid chains via the ping-pong mechanism.
It cleaves the phosphodiester bond in nucleic acids, via hydrolysis.
Lysosomal enzymes are predominantly __________.
hydrolases
isomerases
kinases
decarboxylases
oxidases