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Enzymes are the biocatalytically active entities upon which the metabolism of all living organisms is based. They speed up (bio)chemical reactions by lowering the energy of activation, without themselves appearing in the reaction products. In this, and in the fact that the catalyst itself is not used up, the action of enzymes resembles that of inorganic catalysts.
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Hartmeier, W. (1988). General Principles. In: Immobilized Biocatalysts. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73364-2_1
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