The substrate selectivity of these enzymes is controlled via the flexible orientation of a key glutamine residue’s gamma-amide group in a “glutamine switch” mechanism. The families of these enzymes labeled “1,” “2,” and “3” are “dual-specific,” while families 4 through 9 of them recognize only one substrate. The heart failure medication milrinone inhibits one of these enzymes to decrease afterload. In the retina, transducin activates one of these enzymes. These enzymes downregulate the activity of (*) protein kinase A by decreasing the concentration of a second messenger. Inhibitors of the “5” isoform of these enzymes cause vasodilation by extending the half-life of cGMP. One of these enzymes is inhibited by sildenafil to treat erectile dysfunction. For 10 points, what enzymes break a bond that forms the “backbone” of DNA? ■END■
| 2025 Chicago Open | 2025-08-09 | Y | 11 | 64% | 9% | 36% | 102.57 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eric Mukherjee | Floridovician | "real numbers are uncountable" factoid actually just statistical error. diagonal georg | 58 | 15 |
| June Yin | It's not X, but... defenders | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | 81 | -5 |
| Andrew Wang | BHSU X | Please sir, may I have some morb? | 85 | 10 |
| Munir Siddiqui | Big is moving to Evanston! | Woke Michael Du be like "I'm a genders player" | 86 | -5 |
| Adam Fine | Halifax Shipping Services | Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard? | 89 | -5 |
| Dan Ni | Enjoying the Hole Experience | Li Bai Chocolate Mushussu Pacha Latte | 90 | -5 |
| Vivek Sasse | "Real quiz bowl" only consists of the ACF academic pyramidal scene and the late 2010s NAQT scene. | I worship the Pyramid (abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard) | 101 | 10 |
| Cyrus Zhou | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 2k5, RNBQKBNR b Q - 99 66 | Broken Socal Scene | 107 | 10 |
| Andrew Ullsperger | The Met on Laserdisc. Bravo! | The True Dharma Eye of the Juan Soto School | 113 | 10 |
| Raul Passement | Mumbo Jumbo Will Labubu | The RAND Coöperation | 126 | 10 |
| Kai Smith | Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard? | Halifax Shipping Services | 128 | 10 |
| Coby Tran | No, explaining that your buzz came from watching an isekai is not "Proustian" | One Microscopic Pog in His Chat-astrophic Plan | 128 | 0 |
| Anderson Wang | One Microscopic Pog in His Chat-astrophic Plan | No, explaining that your buzz came from watching an isekai is not "Proustian" | 128 | 0 |
| Adrian Wong | Woke Michael Du be like "I'm a genders player" | Big is moving to Evanston! | 128 | 0 |