Introduction

Enzymes are macromolecular catalyst which provides an alternative path way to accelerate the process
of a chemical reaction which required lower activation energy. Enzyme may convert substrates to
another product which usually happen in a current existing cell. This reaction will be done through the
temporary binding of the enzymes to one or more reactants. Enzymes are widely knew as a proteins and
currently research shown that not all enzymes are proteins as some are ribonucleoprotein enzymes
where catalytic activity is in the RNA part rather than in the protein part. (Enzymes, 2016, Enzymes, Para.
1 The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica, 2016 Westfall, 2013). Furthermore, Alajar(2009) also stated
that, Some enzymes are composed chiefly of proteins while most [are made up of] protein and
non-proteinportions which can either be an organic molecule or a metal ion" known as a cofactor
(Enzymes, 2015, Function and structure, Para. 4).Almost all metabolism process need enzyme to
accelerate their chemical process to sustain life. Enzymes are currently known as catalyst almost 5000
types of chemical reaction. Usually most of the persons confused about different between of enzymes
and catalyst, but there are little different between both of them. The main different is that enzymes are
largely organic in nature and are bio-catalysts, while non-enzymatic catalysts can be inorganic
compounds such as Iron, vanadium(V) oxide, platinum , rhodium and so on.A catalyst is a chemical that
increases or decrease the rate of a chemical reaction remain unchanged after the reaction. In fact that
they aren't changed by participating in a reaction distinguishes catalysts from substrates, which are the
reactants on which catalysts work but enzymes catalyze biochemical reactions. So, enzymes are proteins
that increase rate of chemical reactions converting substrate into product. Catalyst also not specific and
therefore end up producing residues with errors but enzyme are highly specific producing large amount
of residues. The reaction of a catalyst required a high temperature and pressure but enzyme required a
good condition and environment which provide an optimal pH, temperature, salt condition and so on.
Then the reaction rates of a catalyst typical slower compare with enzyme. Therefore, all enzymes count
as catalysts but not all catalysts are enzymes.

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