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A chemical kinetics theory for interpreting the non-monotonic temperature dependence of enzymatic reactions
Jinyun Tang
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Department of Climate Sciences, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
William J. Riley
Department of Climate Sciences, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
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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.
A chemical kinetics theory is proposed to explain the non-monotonic relationship between...
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