Enzyme Substrates

Enzymes are proteins, also known as biocatalysts, which fix any chemical reaction by reducing the activity energy, need substrates to function in any reaction. In biochemistry, the substrate is an enzyme-targeting molecule. They are involved in enzyme-catalyzed reactions and are transformed or decomposed into other bioactive molecules. The substrate binds to the active site of the enzyme to form an enzyme-substrate complex, which reduces the activity energy. Further by adding ions and certain chemical groups can promote the start of the reaction, these chemical groups bind to the substrate use covalent bonds and reduce it to a product, and then the substrate is released from the enzyme. Enzyme substrates are increasingly sought after due to their high specificity and economic convenience, and have an indispensable part in enzymatic reactions.