Articles | Volume 21, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-21-1061-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-21-1061-2024
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04 Mar 2024
Research article |  | 04 Mar 2024

A chemical kinetics theory for interpreting the non-monotonic temperature dependence of enzymatic reactions

Jinyun Tang and William J. Riley

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bg-2023-77-matlabscipts Jinyun Tang and William J. Riley https://github.com/jinyun1tang/bg-2023-77-matlabscipts

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A chemical kinetics theory is proposed to explain the non-monotonic relationship between temperature and biochemical rates. It incorporates the observed thermally reversible enzyme denaturation that is ensured by the ceaseless thermal motion of molecules and ions in an enzyme solution and three well-established theories: (1) law of mass action, (2) diffusion-limited chemical reaction theory, and (3) transition state theory.
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