Triose phosphate isomerase

cosmos 4th November 2016 at 2:43pm

An Enzyme that helps Glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate become Dihydroxy acetone phosphate.

See video from edx course.

It is a diffusion-limited enzyme (the rate-limiting step in the reaction is Diffusion itself). This is also called kinetically perfect. There is no point in Evolution to make it any faster, as it's not rate-limiting.