Structural and Functional Aspects of Enzyme Catalysis

Enzymes perform the executive role in growth, energy conversion, and repair of a living organism. Their activity is adjusted to their en­ vironment within the cell, being turned off, switched on, or finely tuned by specific metabolites according to demands at the physiologi­ cal level. Each enzyme discovered in the long history of enzymology has revealed its own individuality. Even closely related...