If your solution has only silica and water in it (ie no salts or other non-volatiles) you could simply weigh out a certain amount of your solution (in a preweighed container - preferably ceramic) and put it in the oven at over 250 C or so until it is completely dry then weigh what you have...
Do you mean that some are fast and some are slow? Enzymes have evolved to maintain a balance with a whole lot of other enzymes. Some are slow because they need to act as a bit of a bottleneck to prevent too much of a particular product being generated, or too much of a molecule being consumed...
Hi All,
Great forum! I am new here.
As a bit of background, I have a PhD in chemistry but have shifted slowly but surely over the past few years to work in enzyme engineering and molecular modelling, primarily in the areas of lignocellulosic biofuels and enzymes for CO2...
This is not a full list but it is just about all we know at the moment. There are 115 families of different cellulases (or glycoside hydrolases - GH for short). You will see that there are many hundreds that have been discovered.
http://www.cazy.org/Glycoside-Hydrolases.html
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