Page 31 - The Miraculous Machine that Works for an Entire Lifetime: Enzyme

Adnan Oktar

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Enzymes are all proteins, and therefore have a protein structure,
possessing the three-dimensional structural features unique to pro-
teins. For that reason they are easily able to attach to other molecules
and take part in reactions.
Although amino acids are the building blocks of proteins, what
gives a protein—and thus, an enzyme—its characteristic feature is the
order and number of the amino acids and the so-called peptide bonds
that connect two amino acids together. Which reactions an individual
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enzyme will affect, as well as their speed, are determined by the fea-
tures and arrangement of the amino acids. But what determines which
amino acids an enzyme should consist of?
Imagine an enzyme consisting of 100 amino acids. Since there are
20 different kinds of amino acids in living organisms, these hundred
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amino acids can be arranged in 100 different ways. Yet only one of all
these sequences will constitute the proper enzyme. Here it is the genes
that, by the will of Allah, determine the correct sequence. As already
pointed out, enzymes are arranged and controlled by genes. All pro-
teins, whether within the structure of the cell or those exhibiting en-
zyme activity, are synthesized by genes, which tell the enzymes which
duties they are to assume. In other words, their encoded instructions
determines which reactions enzymes must enter into. In light of this in-
formation, enzymes head for the specific molecules they will launch in-
to reactions.
Here, it will be useful to recall that neither enzymes nor the genes
that encode their behavior are conscious entities. It is impossible for
genes, much less the enzymes that receive data from them, to act of
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