A substance, other than the
catalyst or one of the substrates, that increases the rate of a catalysed reaction without
itself being consumed; the process is called
activation. An activator of an enzyme-catalysed reaction may be called enzyme activator, if
it acts by binding to the enzyme.
Source:
PAC, 1993, 65, 2291
(Nomenclature of kinetic methods of analysis (IUPAC Recommendations 1993))
on page 2292
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IUPAC. Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 2nd ed. (the "Gold Book"). Compiled by
A. D. McNaught and A. Wilkinson. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford (1997).
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