compare the action of the ligand-gated channel to how an enzyme works.

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We can compare the mechanism of how Enzymes works and how ligand-gated channel work and their actions in two ways;

chemical transmitters for activation

Both of them are substance-specific

  • A Ligand-gated channel can be regarded as form of transmembrane transporters which gives room for the passage of ions from one side to the other.

  • It works in way that a chemical messanger is required to be activated so that passage of ion through the Ligand-gated channel and the membrane to be possible.

Ligand-gated channel usually have spores, and some of their features are:

  1. Passive transport
  2. Controlled flow
  3. They are ion specific.

  • Enzymes can be regarded as chemical catalysts which helps in speeding up of chemical reactions of substance. This substance is referred as substrates.

  • For some Enzymes to function they need another substance that will bind them to the activation zone, this also happens in Ligand-gated channels and both the Enzymes and Ligand-gated channels are also substrate-specific.

Therefore, activation is required for both ligand-gated channel and Enzymes.

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