Adults who are lactose intolerant cannot break down the disaccharide in milk products. To help digest dairy food, a product known as Lactaid can be given prior to consuming dairy products. (16.4, 16.5)
a. What is the name of enzyme present in Lactaid, and what is the major class of this enzyme?

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Adults who are lactose intolerant cannot break down the disaccharide in milk products. To help digest dairy food, a product known as Lactaid can be given prior to consuming dairy products. (16.4, 16.5)
a. What is the name of enzyme present in Lactaid, and what is the major class of this enzyme?

a. What is the name of enzyme present in Lactaid, and what is the major class of this enzyme?

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All right. Hello everyone. So this question says that people with celiac disease cannot properly digest gluten found in wheat, a supplement called gluten ease or gluten ease. I should say claims to help digest gluten containing foods. What enzyme is likely to be present in gluten ease? And what is the major class of this enzyme? So, first and foremost, what is the nature of gluten? And what type of reaction is going to take place to process gluten in our bodies? Celiac disease, as mentioned before, is going to hinder the proper digestion of gluten in the body. Now, gluten notably is a protein, right? It's a protein found in wheat and other grains for that matter because it's a protein, right? We understand that it's made up of individual amino acids that link together to create a more complex polypeptide chain that polypeptide chain undergoes folding to produce a three dimensional structure. That is the protein. So the main backbone of the polypeptide chain that was mentioned is known as a peptide bond. Now, the peptide bond is really just an amide linkage, but it's called the peptide bond because we're talking about a polypeptide. So the peptide bond as mentioned before is simply an aide linkage. And so the question is, how do you break down a polypeptide? Well, to break down the polypeptide, you would need to break down the peptide bo. And the way that this is done is if you recall through hydrolysis, so basically what needs to happen is that water needs to be added across the amide bond to ultimately separate it, right. So this brings us now to the appropriate class of enzyme. If we need the enzyme to catalyze the hydrolysis of the peptide bond, then that enzyme must be oops a hydraulic. So it has to be a hydrolase in a general sense. But what specific hydrolase do we need here? Well, going back to the beginning gluten is a protein. Therefore, we need an enzyme that breaks down proteins and those are called proteases. And with that, we've arrived at our final answer. So just to summarize right, the specific enzyme that we need is a protease because we have to break down our protein. And furthermore, the class of enzyme that proteases fall under is hydrolase and there you have it. So with that being said, thank you so very much for watching. And I hope you found this helpful.

Adults who are lactose intolerant cannot break down the disaccharide in milk products. To help digest dairy food, a product known as Lactaid can be given prior to consuming dairy products. (16.4, 16.5)
a. What is the name of enzyme present in Lactaid, and what is the major class of this enzyme?

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Adults who are lactose intolerant cannot break down the disaccharide in milk products. To help digest dairy food, a product known as Lactaid can be given prior to consuming dairy products. (16.4, 16.5)a. What is the name of enzyme present in Lactaid, and what is the major class of this enzyme?

Verified video answer for a similar problem:

Key Concepts

Lactase

Enzyme Classification

Lactose Intolerance

Adults who are lactose intolerant cannot break down the disaccharide in milk products. To help digest dairy food, a product known as Lactaid can be given prior to consuming dairy products. (16.4, 16.5)
a. What is the name of enzyme present in Lactaid, and what is the major class of this enzyme?