[geeks] RE: [rescue] OT: ADD - MOVING to geeks

[Jennifer Sharp]

I think he said it changes color. That would make sense to me.

Jennifer Sharp

"Do not taunt Happy Fun Pregnant Woman."  -- James Sharp
-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua D Boyd <jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu>
To: geeks at sunhelp.org <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Date: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 12:28 AM
Subject: Re: [geeks] RE: [rescue] OT: ADD - MOVING to geeks


>On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 11:45:51PM -0500, Jennifer Sharp wrote:
>> I think he said that roses have a naturally acidic Ph and the blue
>> enzyme he was going to extract from a cornflower, which I think he
>> said was distantly related to the rose. But the cornflower has a
very
>> basic Ph. And the blue enzyme could not exsist in such a acidic
plant.
>> Or something like that. I could be completely wrong. I only got to
>> talk to the man for a minute when everyone came along and insisted
>> that he was boring me to death. Which he wasn't.
>
>Well, there are few basic rules about enzymes (and protiens in
>general).
>
>1) You change their shape, and you change their function (most
>   of the time this means they just stop working).
>2) You change whether they are in water, some other liquid, or dry,
>   and they change shape.  Now see rule 1.
>3) You change the pH of the surrounding solution, and they change
>   shape.  See rule 1.
>4) You change the temperature, and they change shape.  See rule 1.
>
>Now, in this case, we are talking about rules 3 and 1.  I'm not sure
>what happens when the blue pigment enzyme changes shape.  I think it
>is one of two things.  It either changes color, or it stops being
able
>to circulate through the plant.  I don't really know which is which.
>
>--
>Joshua D. Boyd
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