What is the similarity between enzymes and general chemical catalysts?
(1) The enzyme is the same in many respects as a biocatalyst and a general catalyst, such as a small amount and a high catalytic efficiency. As with the general catalyst, the enzyme can only change the rate of chemical reaction and does not change the equilibrium of the chemical reaction It is possible to catalyze the activation of a large number of substrates in a short time and to reflect the high efficiency of enzyme catalysis.The enzyme can reduce the activation energy of the reaction (activation) (△ G) during the reaction, but the reaction rate is accelerated and the reaction time is reduced, but the equilibrium constant is not changed. (2) However, the enzyme is a biological macromolecule (1) Enzyme-catalyzed high efficiency: The catalytic effect of the catalyst can increase the reaction rate by 10 ^ 6 ~ 10 ^ 12 times, which is at least several times higher than that of the conventional catalyst. (2) The enzyme catalyst Highly specificity: including specificity of response, substrate specificity, chirality specificity, geometric specificity, etc., that an enzyme can only act on a certain class or a specific substance. Bond, ester bond, peptide bond and so on can be catalyzed by acid-base hydrolysis, but the hydrolysis of these chemical bonds are different, respectively, the corresponding glycosidase, esterase and peptidase, that is, they were specific (3) enzymatic reaction conditions are mild: enzymatic reaction is generally carried out in aqueous solution of pH = 5 ~ 8, the reaction temperature range is 20 ~ 40 ℃
