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Cold enzymes: a hot topic

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Cold-Adapted Organisms

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Chemical reaction rates often show a strong temperature dependency and a decrease of 10°C from room temperature typically divides the rate by a factor oscillating between 1.5 and 4. The decrease of the rate constant k indeed obeys an equation proposed by Svante Arrhenius as early as in 1889:

$$K = A{e^{ - Ea/RT}}$$
(1)

in which E a is the activation energy, R the gas constant (8.31 kJ mol−1) and T the temperature in Kelvin.

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Gerday, C. et al. (1999). Cold enzymes: a hot topic. In: Margesin, R., Schinner, F. (eds) Cold-Adapted Organisms. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-06285-2_14

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