The inner (plasma) membrane of E. coli is about 75% lipid and 25% protein by weight.  How many molecules of membrane lipid are there for each molecule of protein?  (Assume that the average protein is Mr 50,000 and the average lipid is 750.)

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Both water and glucose share an —OH that can serve as a substrate for a reaction with the terminal phosphate of ATP catalyzed by hexokinase.  Glucose, however, is about a million times more reactive as a substrate than water.  The best explanation is that:

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A good transition-state analog:

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A transition-state analog:

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The role of the metal ion (Mg2+) in catalysis by enolase is to

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Penicillin and related drugs inhibit the enzyme; this enzyme is produced by 

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Which of the following statements about allosteric control of enzymatic activity is false?