MadSci Network: Biochemistry
Query:

Subject: At what temperature are the human body's enzymes rendered ineffective?

Date: Sat Mar 6 12:27:03 1999
Posted by Beth
Grade level: 10-12 School: No school entered.
City: No city entered. State/Province: Ontario Country: Canada
Area of science: Biochemistry
ID: 920744823.Bc
Message:

I would like to know if some of the symptoms of hypothermia or 
heat stroke arise because the enzymes in the human body can't 
work any more at those temperatures and so some reactions aren't 
able to take place.  If so, which enzymes, and at what 
temperatures?  I did a lab on the effects of temperature on the 
enzyme catalase last week so I was just wondering about catalase 
in the human body!


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