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Kinetics: Overview

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Chemical kinetics

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The root of Kinetics comes from kinesis (movement), and in general, it is a term applied to characterization of phenomena with respect to time. Every measurement is carried out as a function of time, and hence, there is potentially a kinetic element to every experiment. This section focuses on chemical kinetics which involves the investigation and interpretation of reaction rates. Here the concentrations of chemical species or states are measured with time, principally for the determination of reaction mechanism. Kinetics may also be used empirically to determine the concentrations of species. This is the main-stay of many clinical assays.

Kinetics is fundamental to many aspects of protein and nucleic acid chemistry, be it ligand binding, catalysis, or folding (Bagshaw 2017; Goodrich and Kugel 2006; Gutfreund 1995; Purich 2010). Clearly kinetic studies are central to the characterization of enzymes as catalysts, and many of the principles of...

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  1. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA

    Clive R. Bagshaw

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    Clive R. Bagshaw

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Bagshaw, C.R. (2018). Kinetics: Overview. In: Roberts, G., Watts, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Biophysics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35943-9_54-2

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    Kinetics: Overview
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35943-9_54-2

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