Description
Book SynopsisThis guide concentrates on the chemical and physical foundation of enzyme catalysis, the key area for the deeper understanding of biocatalytic processes. It also includes examples for proteins and nucleic acids, two central areas of biochemical and bio-organic research.
Trade Review"...outlines the principles, rules, and analytic protocols for the kinetic analysis of the catalytic functions of enzymes at interfaces." (
SciTech Book News, Vol. 26, No. 2, June 2002)
Table of ContentsPreface
Theory Boxes
List of Symbols
Why Interfacial Enzymes?
Interface Phenomena: Accessibility and Exchange
To Be or Not To Be: Dilemma for the Substrate in Solution
Interfacial Processivity: Ensemble Behavior in the Scooting Mode
Analysis of the Processive Reaction Progress
Detailed Balance Conditions for Interfacial Equilibria
Rapid Substrate Replenishment in the Quasi-Scooting Mode
Interfacial Allostery
Inhibition: Specific or Nonspecific
The Delay to the Steady State in the Reaction Progress
Nonidealities of the Dispersed Phases
Effects of Reduction of Dimensionality
