Enzyme Activation

"Enzyme Activation" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

expand / collapse MeSH information
Conversion of an inactive form of an enzyme to one possessing metabolic activity. It includes 1, activation by ions (activators); 2, activation by cofactors (coenzymes); and 3, conversion of an enzyme precursor (proenzyme or zymogen) to an active enzyme.


expand / collapse publications
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Enzyme Activation" by people in this website by year, and whether "Enzyme Activation" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 1140 publications over 30 distinct years, with a maximum of 91 publications in 2005
To see the data from this visualization as text, click here.