Studies on enzyme action. II.—The rate of the change, conditioned by sucroclastic enzymes, and its bearing on the law of mass action.

Abstract

Although it is now universally recognised that enzymes play a most important part in animal and plant metabolism and that they even condition synthetic changes, most of the work done has been of a qualitative character; in only a few cases has the nature of the action been precisely determined—and the results arrived at in these few cases, if not discrepant, cannot easily be harmonised at first sight. C. O’Sullivan and Tompson were the first to study the action of enzymes quantitatively.