Question

The carbonic anhydrases form a family of enzymes that catalyze the interconversion between carbon dioxide and water and the dissociated ions of carbonic acid. Want to know a famous achievement of these enzymes? Check out this question.The fastest acting enzyme in the biological kingdom is:

• A. (A) Lipase
• B. (B) Amylase
• C. (C) Carboxypeptidase
• D. (D) Carbonic anhydrase

Answer 1

Answer: (D)

(D) Carbonic anhydrase

Answer 2

Explanation:
In enzymology, the turnover number is the number of substrate molecules converted to products in a given unit of time on a single enzyme molecule when the enzyme is saturated with substrate. The enzyme catalase has the highest turnover number value of 40,000,000 (per second per molecule of enzyme), followed by Carbonic anhydrase 400,000 (per second per molecule of enzyme), followed by acetylcholinesterase 140,000 (per second per molecule of enzyme), followed by β-lactamase 2000 (per second per molecule of enzyme).Hence, the correct option is (D).