what functions do they perform?
Enzymes are known to catalyze more than 5,000 biochemical reaction types
Enzyme
Enzymes are proteins that act as biological catalysts (biocatalysts). Catalysts accelerate chemical reactions.
what is an enzyme? Enzymes are Proteins that act as biological catalysts who discovered it? Anselme Payen was he the same person who gave the name? No, German physiologist Wilhelm Kühne first used the term "enzyme" name some factors that affect it's activity? Temperature, pH, substrate concentration
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Enzyme [SEP] Introduction
Enzymes are proteins that act as biological catalysts (biocatalysts). Catalysts accelerate chemical reactions. The molecules upon which enzymes may act are called substrates, and the enzyme converts the substrates into different molecules known as products. Almost all metabolic processes in the cell need enzyme catalysis in order to occur at rates fast enough to sustain life. Metabolic pathways depend upon enzymes to catalyze individual steps. The study of enzymes is called "enzymology" and a new field of pseudoenzyme analysis has recently grown up, recognising that during evolution, some enzymes have lost the ability to carry out biological catalysis, which is often reflected in their amino acid sequences and unusual 'pseudocatalytic' properties.