Hydrolytic enzymes break down protein, carbohydrate, and fat molecules into their simplest units. The hydrolysis of polymers by hydrolytic enzymes results in free monomers.
Lysosomal hydrolytic enzymes are manufactured in the rough endoplasmic reticulum (Rough ER), from whence they are transferred in a transport vesicle to the cis face of the Golgi apparatus or complex (see Figure 1).
(Redirected from Hydrolytic enzyme)
Jump to: navigation, search
In biochemistry, a hydrolase is an enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of a chemical bond. For example, an enzyme that catalyzed the following reaction is a hydrolase: ...
Those enzymes are called hydrolytic enzymes, and they break down large molecules into small molecules. For example, large proteins into amino acids, or large carbohydrates into simple sugars, or large lipids into single fatty acids.
Lysosome: Lysosomes contain hydrolytic enzymes necessary for intracellular digestion. They are common in animal cells, but rare in plant cells. Hydrolytic enzymes of plant cells are more often found in the vacuole.
A membrane- enclosed bag of hydrolytic enzymes found in the cytoplasm of eukaryotic cells.
Was this definition helpful?
Would you have liked more information?
However, one lysosomal storage disease, I-cell disease ("inclusion-cell disease"), is caused by a failure to "tag" (by phosphorylation) all the hydrolytic enzymes that are supposed to be transported from the Golgi apparatus to the lysosomes.
Lysosomes, shown in Figure 17, are relatively large vesicles formed by the Golgi. They contain hydrolytic enzymes that could destroy the cell. Lysosome contents function in the extracellular breakdown of materials.
(ly-so-some) [Gk. lysis, loosening + soma, body]
A membrane-enclosed bag of hydrolytic enzymes found in the cytoplasm of eukaryotic cells.
lysozyme ...
lysosome Cytoplasmic, membrane-bounded organelle that contains digestive and hydrolytic enzymes, which are typically most active at the acid pH found in the lumen of lysosomes.
lysosome
a membrane-enclosed bag of hydrolytic enzymes found in the cytoplasm of eukaryotic cells.
M ...
 See also: Enzymes, Enzyme, Cells, Membrane, Protein
|
