Are enzymes functional in non living cells?

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Are  enzymes functional  in non living cells?

frostbite · Answer

In principal Yes. An enzyme is nothing more than a simple chemical that work under specific conditions , but may require some post-translational modifications.

anonymous · Answer

Hey Frostbite can u send me some reference ?

frostbite · Answer

Sure.

frostbite · Answer

Just need to get my right PC so I can enter the my publishing catalog.

frostbite · Answer

Familiar with the biochemist Eduard Buchner?

anonymous · Answer

no

frostbite · Answer

can't enter my catalog but I can give you this: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1907/buchner-lecture.pdf

frostbite · Answer

It is his noble lecture... he got a noble prize for doing a fermentation using non-living cells

anonymous · Answer

Thanks.... reading it.

frostbite · Answer

Another interesting article I like to mention which is why I say "chemical" is the ribonuclease refolding experiment done by Chris Anfinsen... He earned the noble prize in chemistry for showing that the sequence alone determines the native conformation - just like any other chemical.

frostbite · Answer

Source:
Lehninger, Principles of Biochemistry, 5e.