Journal articleAuthors : Chiba, Yoko (2023)
A unified framework to rationalize enzymatic activity is essential to understand cellular function and
metabolic evolution. Recent studies have shown that the activity of several hydrolases is maximized
when the substrate binding affinity (Michaelis-Menten constant:) is neither too strong nor too
weak. This is because an intermediate resolves the trade-off between, in accord
with the Sabatier principle of artificial catalysis. However, it remains unc...