Can someone please help me? Each enzyme has a temperature at which it works best. A slight increase in temperature can increase enzyme activity while a large increase in temperature can cause the enzyme to become denatured. Which of the following best explains what happens when a protein becomes denatured?

The enzyme absorbs heat until the temperature decreases, and the reaction then continues normally.

The enzyme loses its shape and is no longer able to catalyze chemical reactions.

The enzyme breaks apart into the amino acids that originally combined to form the enzyme.

The e

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Can someone please help me?  Each enzyme has a temperature at which it works best. A slight increase in temperature can increase enzyme activity while a large increase in temperature can cause the enzyme to become denatured. Which of the following best explains what happens when a protein becomes denatured?
 
The enzyme absorbs heat until the temperature decreases, and the reaction then continues normally.
 
The enzyme loses its shape and is no longer able to catalyze chemical reactions.
 
The enzyme breaks apart into the amino acids that originally combined to form the enzyme.
 
The e

abb0t · Answer

When you add heat, new bonds are being broken and some are being made. But from what I remember, it's mostly broken. Since proteins function depends on their shape, if you denature their shape, they can no longer bind to their original location and now have no function or no use.

anonymous · Answer

So do you think the answer would be:
The enzyne loses its shape and is on longer able to catalyze chemical reactions?  Or The enzyme unfolds and refolds into a different shape, and is used to catalyze a different chemical reaction?  I was thinking it was the first chioce?

abb0t · Answer

Definitely the first choice. Function is the primary loss when a protein is denatured.

anonymous · Answer

That is what I thought.  Thank you so much.