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The Andromeda Strain
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- If it was an enzymatic block of some kind—like arsenic or strychnine—we'd expect fifteen or thirty seconds, perhaps longer.†
Chpt 6
- His own research with staphylococcus, for example, had shown that this organism produced two enzymes that altered blood.†
Chpt 11enzymes = substances that causes a chemical reaction
- And it could do it many different ways: strep produced an enzyme, streptokinase, that dissolved coagulated plasma.†
Chpt 11enzyme = substance that causes a chemical reaction
- He remembered that it operated like a kind of waterfall: one enzyme was set off, and activated, which acted on a second enzyme, which acted on a third; the third on a fourth; and so on, down through twelve or thirteen steps, until finally blood clotted.†
Chpt 11
- He remembered that it operated like a kind of waterfall: one enzyme was set off, and activated, which acted on a second enzyme, which acted on a third; the third on a fourth; and so on, down through twelve or thirteen steps, until finally blood clotted.†
Chpt 11
- And vaguely he remembered the rest, the details: all the intermediate steps, the necessary enzymes, the metals, ions, local factors.†
Chpt 11enzymes = substances that causes a chemical reaction
- MEDCOM PROGRAM LAB/ANALYS CK/JGG/1223098 i BLOOD PROTEIN COUNTSRBC RETIC ALB PLATES GLOB WBC FIBRIN DIFF TOTAL HEMATOCRIT FRACTION HEMOGLOBIN INDICES MCV DIAGNOSTICS MCHC PROTIME CHOLEST PTT CREAT SED RATE GLUCOSE PBI CHEMISTRY BEI i BRO I IBC CA NPN CL BUN MG BILIRU, DIFF P04 CEPH/FLOC K THYMOL/TURB NA C02 BSP 188 MICHAEL CRICHTON ENZYMES PULMONARY AMYLASE TVC CHOLINESTERASE TV LIPASE IC PHOSPHATASE, ACID IRV ALKALINE ERV LDH MBC SGOT SGPT URINE STEROIDS SPGR ALDO PH L7-OH PROT 17-KS GLUC ACTH KETONE ALL ELECTROLYTES VITS ALL STEROIDS A ALL INORGANICS ALLB CATECHOLS C PORPHYRINS E UROBIL K 5-HIAA Hall stared at the list.†
Chpt 14
- It was almost impossible: on earth, proteins were part of the cell wall, and comprised all the enzymes known to man.†
Chpt 20
- And life without enzymes?†
Chpt 20
- He recalled the remark of George Thompson, the British biochemist, who had called enzymes "the matchmakers of life."†
Chpt 20
- It was true; enzymes acted as catalysts for all chemical reactions, by providing a surface for two molecules to come together and react upon.†
Chpt 20
- There were hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of enzymes, each existing solely to aid a single chemical reaction.†
Chpt 20
- Without enzymes, there could be no chemical reactions.†
Chpt 20
- On earth, organisms had evolved by learning to carry out biochemical reactions in a small space, with the help of protein enzymes.†
Chpt 22
- Cells could keep the hundreds of separate reactions straight, using enzymes.†
Chpt 22
- Each enzyme was like a single worker in a kitchen, doing just one thing.
Chpt 22 *enzyme = a complex protein that is produced by cells and acts as a chemical catalyst (causing a chemical reaction)
- But enzymes had a further use.†
Chpt 22enzymes = substances that causes a chemical reaction
- Enzymes, the matchmakers of life, helped chemical reactions to go forward at body temperature and atmospheric pressure.†
Chpt 22
- Enzymes were essential to life on earth.†
Chpt 22
- Which means that it has no proteins as we know them, and no enzymes.†
Chpt 22
Definitions:
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(1)
(enzyme) a substance that causes a chemical reaction
(typically a complex protein produced by living cells--which acts as a chemical catalyst without being changed) - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)