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Labs on Chip
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Labs on Chip

by Eugenio Iannone
September 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1178 pages
48h 30m
English
CRC Press
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2.5    ENZYMATIC CATALYSIS

As anticipated in Section 2.3.2, the mechanism nature used to accelerate complex biochemical reactions is catalysis via a class of specifically structured proteins called enzymes [24,25,50]. A very large number of enzymes have been studied both for research and for their relevance in analytic procedures and in medical treatment of diseases, but all acts on the ground of a general mechanism.

2.5.1    THE BASIC PRINCIPLE OF ENZYMES WORKING

As detailed in Sections 1.2.4 and 1.2.5, all chemical reactions transit through transition states or intermediate states. It is important here to distinguish transition states from intermediate states.

A transition state is envisioned as an extreme distortion of a bond, and thus the ...

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ISBN: 9781466560727