NDLI: A Process Theory of Enzyme Catalytic Power – the Interplay of Science and Metaphysics

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Author	Stein, Ross L.
Copyright Year	2006
Abstract	Enzymes are protein catalysts of extraordinary efficiency, capable of bringing about rate enhancements of their biochemical reactions that can approach factors of 1020. Theories of enzyme catalysis, which seek to explain the means by which enzymes effect catalytic transformation of the substrate molecules on which they work, have evolved over the past century from the “lock-and-key” model proposed by Emil Fischer in 1894 to models that explicitly rely on transition state theory to the most recent theories that strive to provide accounts that stress the essential role of protein dynamics. In this paper, I attempt to construct a metaphysical framework within which these new models of enzyme catalysis can be developed. This framework is constructed from key doctrines of process thought, which gives ontologic priority to becoming over being, as well as tenets of a process philosophy of chemistry, which stresses environmentally responsive molecular transformation. Enzyme catalysis can now be seen not as enzyme acting on its substrate, but rather as enzyme and substrate entering into a relation which allows them to traverse the reaction coordinate as an ontologic unity.
Starting Page	3
Ending Page	29
Page Count	27
File Format	PDF
ISSN	13864238
Journal	Foundations of Chemistry
Volume Number	8
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15728463
Language	English
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Publisher Date	2006-04-17
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	History Philosophy of Science Physical Chemistry Chemistry/Food Science
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Chemistry History Biochemistry

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