Artificial enzyme

For enzyme mimic, see enzyme mimic.
See also: Artificial metalloenzyme

An artificial enzyme, also known as a synthetic enzyme or a synzyme, is a synthetic organic molecule or ion that recreates one or more functions of a natural enzyme. These molecules aim to achieve catalysis with rates and selectivity comparable to those of naturally occurring enzymes.

Current synzymes consist mainly of organic molecules tailored in such a way that they catalyse certain kinds of reactions. Like enzymes, they bind a transition state of a substrate in an active site, and like enzymes they generally obey Michaelis–Menten kinetics.

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