Answer to Question #198366 in Biochemistry for aqsa urooj

Question

Suppose you are working in a lab to optimize enzyme activity and you observe that the enzyme activity decrease with increase in time. What could be the possible reason/s?

Answer 1

The reasons can be as follows

>We know that the enzyme is unstable under the assay conditions.

>Enzyme activity decreases due to the change in pH

>The reason can be that the substrate is being used up.