Speaker
Anand Yethiraj
Description
Enzymes are valuable because they can catalyze reactions by binding transiently and greatly enhance the reaction probability for "substrate" molecules to convert to "product" molecules. But do they receive a physical kick while this reaction is proceeding? This would make them substrate-driven nanometers, or nanoscale active matter. Numerous fluorescence-based measurements (and a few others) say yes; several other measurements now say no!
We examine the diffusion of enzymes attached to nanoparticles (NPs) by multiple techniques. We also measure the enzyme activity of these enzyme-functional NPs. I will talk about the interesting behaviour of the enzyme activity of enzyme-functional NPs. And I might even answer the question in the title!
| Keyword-1 | enzymes |
|---|---|
| Keyword-2 | active matter |
| Keyword-3 | diffusion |
Author
Anand Yethiraj
Co-authors
Mr
Anas Alhasanat
(Memorial University of Newfoundland)
Valerie Booth
