Kornberg Enzyme Kinetics. The royal swedish academy of sciences today awarded roger kornberg, phd, of the stanford university school of medicine, the 2006 nobel prize in chemistry. In this chapter, we outline the theory and methods of enzyme kinetics and show for a few simple cases the mechanistic information that can be derived.

Although kornberg did not discover much about pyrophosphate, he did find that the cellular respiration process was strongly enhanced by the coenzyme nad (nicotinamide. The rates of repeated experiments at varying substrate concentrations are monitored by measuring the.