[...]... molecule Handbook of Biochemical Kinetics xi Abbreviations & Symbols E Energy Initial kinetic energy of relative motion of reactants ⌬G Њ Standard Gibbs free energy change per mole ⌬ ‡G Њ Standard Gibbs free energy of activation E Electric vector of light Ea Activation energy g Gram [Eo] or Eo Total enzyme concentration ge Degeneracy of the lower state Eq or eq Equivalent Equilibrium gu Degeneracy of the... intensity The larger the value of Is (relative to Io or I), the greater the error in concentration or rate measurements2 Figure 3 Example of the Beer–Lambert relationship The Beer-Lambert relationship is additive (i.e., the absorption of light by one chemical species is unaffected Handbook of Biochemical Kinetics Absorption Spectroscopy by the presence of other species, irrespective of whether those other... xviii Initiation factor Isopropylthiogalactoside NANA N-Acetylneuraminic acid Handbook of Biochemical Kinetics Abbreviations & Symbols NMN Nicotinamide mononucleotide NMR Nuclear magnetic resonance NOESY NTP P QCO2 The amount (in microliters) of CO2 given off (under standard conditions of pressure and temperature) per milligram of tissue per hour Nuclear Overhauser effect spectroscopy QELS Nucleoside 5Ј-triphosphate... ‘‘adsorption’’ describes a particular type of surface phenomenon See also Adsorption 2 The process of transfer of energy (e.g., from an electromagnetic field) to a structure or entity (e.g., a molecular entity) 3 The process of transport of a substance into a cell ABSOLUTE ZERO ABSORPTION COEFFICIENT The temperature at thermal energy of random motion of molecular entities of a system in thermal equilibrium... diffusion constant (m2 sϪ1) Spectroscopic energy of dissociation of a diatomic molecule in the Morse equation Concentration of A A, B, C, Substrate A, B, C, A, B, C, Coulombic contributions to the potential energy of interaction Moments of inertia of transition-state complex Aij Amplitude of kinetic decay ˚ A Angstrom unit (10Ϫ10 m) ai Thermodynamic activity of species i ao Bohr radius B Generalized... stones are also known to form as layers of crystallites and amorphous components by accretion of external substances ACCURACY The closeness or proximity of a measured value to the true value for a quantity being measured Unless the magnitude of a quantity is specified by a formal SI definition, one typically uses reference standards to establish Handbook of Biochemical Kinetics ACETALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE... CONSTANTS The following table contains pK values for a selected group of biochemically important substances The associated thermodynamic parameters and the original literature references were presented by Edsall and Wyman1 Handbook of Biochemical Kinetics Any process for which the rate of reaction is accelerated through the participation of an acid as a catalyst See General Acid Catalysis; Specific Acid... restricted to Brønsted acids If the solvent is water, the pH value of the solution is a good measure of the proton-donating ability of the solvent, provided that the concentration of the solute is not too high For concentrated solutions or for mixtures of solvents, the acidity of the solvent is best indicated by use of an acidity function See Degree of Dissociation; Henderson-Hasselbalch Equation; AcidBase... protein and human platelet vasodilator-stimulated phosphoprotein (VASP) Analysis of Nonproductive reversible complexes of an enzyme with various substrates and/or products The International Union of Biochemistry1 distinguishes dead-end complex from abortive complex, and the latter term is regarded Handbook of Biochemical Kinetics 1 Abscissa as a synonym for ‘‘nonproductive complex’’ Complexes that fail... rate I(␭) Intensity of light at wavelength ␭ I(␭)f Intensity of emitted light at wavelength ␭ Fluorescencesample/Fluorescencestandard G I50 or I0.5 i Square root of (Ϫ1) J Joule Handbook of Biochemical Kinetics Abbreviations & Symbols J Nuclear magnetic resonance coupling coefficient Flux density (units ϭ particles areaϪ1 timeϪ1) j Apparent order of a binding reaction K Symbol for Kelvin K or Keq Ka kd . class="bi x0 y0 w0 h1" alt="" Handbook of Biochemical Kinetics ThisPageIntentionallyLeftBlank Handbook of Biochemical Kinetics Daniel L. Purich R. Donald Allison Department of Biochemistry and Molecular. realm of biochemical kinetics and certainly not within a first edition. We are also certain that, despite a determined effort to cover the terminology of chemical Handbook of Biochemical Kinetics. (Coenzyme Q or CoQ) Handbook of Biochemical Kinetics xix Q CO 2 The amount (in microliters) of CO 2 given off (under standard conditions of pressure and temperature) per milligram of tissue per hour QELS