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The Andromeda Strain

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 11

And it could do it many different ways: strep produced an enzyme, streptokinase, that dissolved coagulated plasma.†
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

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 11

…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…†
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 22

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

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Definition:

(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)