Enzymes are macromolecular biological catalysts. Enzymes accelerate, or catalyse, chemical reactions. The molecules at the beginning of the process are called substrates and the enzyme converts these into different molecules, called products. Almost all metabolic processes in the cell need enzymes in order to occur at rates fast enough to sustain life. The set of enzymes made in a cell determines which metabolic pathways occur in that cell. The study of enzymes is called enzymology. Enzymes are known to catalyse more than 5,000 biochemical reaction types. Most enzymes are proteins, although a few are catalytic RNA molecules. Enzymes' specificity comes from their unique three-dimensional structures.
Related Journals of Enzyme Biology
The Journal of Biological Chemistry, Enzyme and Microbial Technology, JBC Enzymology
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