Abstract
THE name “biochemical catalysts” is used by the author as an alternative for the more usual name of “enzymes,” and has the advantage of calling to mind the fact that these are only a particular class of catalysts. The present work is devoted to those enzymes which act on proteins and their degradation products. It includes also a discussion of the phenomena of immunity, as well as of the processes of coagulation of the blood and milk, processes with regard to which some doubt- may be felt as to their being catalytic. Urease is also described.
Biochemical Catalysts in Life and Industry. Proteolytic Enzymes.
By Prof. Jean Effront. Translated by Prof. Samuel C. Prescott, assisted by Charles S. Venable. Pp. xi + 752. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1917.) Price 23s. net.
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B., W. Biochemical Catalysts in Life and Industry Proteolytic Enzymes . Nature 103, 403 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/103403a0
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