Enzymes: Part One

Worthington Biochemical Corporation has a website featuring an educational series of pages on enzymes. Understanding enzymes is critical to understanding health and medical issues on a substantive level. This and related blogs will walk through the series and hopefully supply readers, unfamiliar with enzymes, with some informative blogging. Introduction to Enzymes makes a number of noteworthy points. Enzymes are very important to research because of their critical role in biochemistry. Enzymology is a distinct branch of biochemistry.

Enzymes and Life Processes makes some basic points about metabolism, catalysis and the environment within which biological catalytic processes occur. Metabolic activities encompass processes associated with life. Generating energy and replacing cellular constructs and tissues are metabolic activities. Catalysis, an acceleration of biochemical reactions, makes metabolic processes possible. Yet it also makes metabolism possible within mild temperatires and ph levels.