TY - CHAP
T1 - Introduction
AU - Benkovic, Stephen J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2026.
PY - 2026
Y1 - 2026
N2 - Owing to a lengthy career, I occupied a ringside seat to watch the evolution of our understanding of enzymatic catalysis. The field has progressed from primitive bioorganic models of enzyme active sites, which guided physical organic-based studies on how enzymes hydrolyze esters and amides, as well as laborious purifications of individual enzymes from animal organs, to investigations of multienzyme complexes, as featured in this text. My intent in this short essay is to provide background for the chapters in this volume.
AB - Owing to a lengthy career, I occupied a ringside seat to watch the evolution of our understanding of enzymatic catalysis. The field has progressed from primitive bioorganic models of enzyme active sites, which guided physical organic-based studies on how enzymes hydrolyze esters and amides, as well as laborious purifications of individual enzymes from animal organs, to investigations of multienzyme complexes, as featured in this text. My intent in this short essay is to provide background for the chapters in this volume.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-032-26629-3_1
DO - 10.1007/978-3-032-26629-3_1
M3 - Chapter
C2 - 42334535
AN - SCOPUS:105043892101
T3 - Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
SP - 1
EP - 5
BT - Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
PB - Springer
ER -