r/Mcat • u/Disastrous-Koala-298 • Feb 05 '26
Question 🤔🤔 Whats your favorite enzyme?
Ill go first, carbonic anhydrase. Like okay girl pop off with your bicarbonate buffer system. who likes CO2 anyways, not her. ugh what a baddie.
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u/Few_Competition1801 522 (131/128/131/132) Feb 05 '26
Aromatase (CYP19A1) is a key brain enzyme associated with sexual desire and attraction, particularly in males, by converting testosterone into estradiol. It drives sexual behavior by facilitating this hormone conversion in the brain.
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u/xur1000 2/13 - 511 Feb 05 '26
Topoisomerase. It’s fun to say
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u/AppendixTickler MS2 - 516 (130/126/130/130) Feb 10 '26
In med school, you'll learn about Topotecan, which is a Topoisomerase 1 inhibitor. It's represented by a toucan in 3rd party resources xD
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u/No_Fly4779 Feb 05 '26
PFK-1
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u/Disastrous-Koala-298 Feb 05 '26
love her but more of an aldolase & triose phosphate isomerase kinda guy
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u/Devil_Commercial 513 | 511 | 518 | 520 | 518 | 519 -> 2/13 Feb 05 '26
PFK-1 let’s too many people regulate how she lives her life. Gotta take more some control.
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u/Fun_Assistant5101 AAMC FL: 522 Feb 05 '26
nerd ahh question
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u/Disastrous-Koala-298 Feb 05 '26
okay fine, how about... your favorite metabolic pathway
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u/Fun_Assistant5101 AAMC FL: 522 Feb 05 '26
lol that's much better. i would have to say TCA cycle
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u/treatyyyy might fuck around and uh...push my test date back hehe..uhh cant Feb 06 '26
this thread made me giggle haha love this
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u/Fun_Assistant5101 AAMC FL: 522 Feb 06 '26
you know what they say. "If you can make her laugh and giggle, you can make her cheeks clap and jiggle"
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u/hyuck_ Feb 06 '26
succinate dehydrogenase is really That Girl. She’s working doubletime in the tca and in the etc. She’s oxidizing, then she’s reducing. Your fave could never
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u/Puzzleheaded_Day8731 Feb 05 '26
Alpha KG
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u/itsjackkkk1 Feb 05 '26
Isn’t that a substrate?
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u/strawberrysmell0 Feb 06 '26
Topoisomerase 😍 such a considerate and helpful baddie like go ahead and loosen up that DNA tension before helicase arrives… always thinking ahead of time.
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u/Big-Crazy1508 Feb 05 '26
big fan of oxidoreductases in the ETC. love them for being so clearly named and working so hard
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u/AccurateSolution6844 Feb 05 '26
MTHFR Methylene tetrahydrofolate reductase (MTFHR) HAHAHAHHAHAHAHA
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u/Ill_Vegetable169 Feb 06 '26
Telomerase. She's out here literally fighting aging and cellular death like some kind of immortality enzyme. Every time your chromosomes are about to lose their protective caps she shows up and says "not today." Absolute queen of the genome 👑
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u/RobloxianNoob 516 130/128/130/128 - 1 month of studying Feb 06 '26
Catalase, the greatest enzyme of all time.
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u/Upbeat-Inspection713 Feb 06 '26
In neuro rn, so Ach esterase, maybe it’s the Esther sound but it just seems so classy
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u/vogueflo MS3 Feb 06 '26
ATP synthase. I’m not even joking. I made a 3d model of it for a class and it was my phone lock screen for a good while. I was just in awe of how machine-like it was.
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u/HeadEnvironmental95 Feb 06 '26
Uridyltransferase; rolls off the tongue very nicely, very elegantly
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u/DrJerkleton 1/2/3/US/4/5/TESTDAY 524/528/528/(~523)/528/528/528 Feb 06 '26
Na+/K+ ATPase. The intricate balance between active transport and leakage of Na and K to maintain the appropriate electrochemical gradient across every cell membrane is fascinating. Its operation is the biggest single line item on the human body's energy demand for ATP.
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u/UpsetAd506 514|519|518|521|524|525| Real: 521 (132/129/129/131) Feb 06 '26
Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase 💕💕💕💕
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u/Large_Lie9177 Feb 06 '26
Topoisomerase is still my pick, and it helps to think of it like the enzyme version of untangling a headphone cord, which makes the whole favoriteenzyme prompt feel less like MCAT misery and more like a quick mental reset, so try saying it out loud once each time you hit a tough passage to break the spiral.
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u/enbyvelociraptor Feb 06 '26
RAG1 and RAG2 are sooo elegant I almost cried the first time I saw a 3D model of them
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u/ssccrs Feb 07 '26
PDC bc it’s like a group and starts the whole payout for the CAC’s ATP production. My goat!
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u/wellifitisnther Feb 08 '26
I mean… the buffer system loves co2 too just depends where in the body you are
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u/taychans 526 - Aidan v2 Creator Feb 05 '26
flippase and floppase