{"id":70755,"date":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writemyessayfree.com\/what-is-the-difference-between-a-substrate-ligand-reactant-and-product"},"modified":"2017-08-18T06:15:20","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T06:15:20","slug":"what-is-the-difference-between-a-substrate-ligand-reactant-and-product","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/what-is-the-difference-between-a-substrate-ligand-reactant-and-product\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the difference between a substrate, ligand, reactant and product?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <b>ligand<\/b> , in biology, is a molecule that binds to another. Often, a soluble molecule such as a hormone or neurotransmitter that binds to a receptor. Here growth factor efficacy is increased with ligand\/receptor binding.<\/p>\n<p>Ligand, in chemistry, any atom or molecule attached to a central atom, usually a metallic element, Here copper is the ligand.<\/p>\n<p> The word is used in ligature (something that binds two or more thing together). Actually handcuffs are ligatures. <\/p>\n<p>A <b>substrate<\/b> is a molecule upon which an enzyme acts. The substrate is changed by the reaction and, in this case, two <b>products<\/b> are made. <\/p>\n<p>A <b>reactant<\/b> and substrate have the same meaning. The term reactant is more often used in chemistry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A ligand , in biology, is a molecule that binds to another. Often, a soluble molecule such as a hormone or neurotransmitter that binds to a receptor. Here growth factor efficacy is increased with ligand\/receptor binding. Ligand, in chemistry, any <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/what-is-the-difference-between-a-substrate-ligand-reactant-and-product\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}