Enzymes and proteins are intrinsically linked and often confused. Essentially, an enzyme is a specific type of protein that performs a very specific function. Proteins are macromolecules, that consist of polymers of amino acids that come to operate as the structural and functional basis for cells within living things. Enzymes are proteins, and they make a biochemical reaction more likely to proceed by lowering the activation energy of the reaction, thereby making these reactions proceed thousands or even millions of times faster than they would without a catalyst. Enzymes are highly specific to their substrates. The majority of enzymes are proteins with catalytic capabilities that are essential for maintaining various life processes, but all the proteins do not have the behaves as enzymes. The molecule binding with the enzyme is called the substrate group to form a very stable enzyme or substrate complex.

Shivangi Ojha

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