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Descriptor English: Substrate Specificity
Descriptor Spanish: Especificidad por Sustrato
Descriptor especificidad del sustrato
Scope note: Propiedad característica de actividad de una enzima en relación con el tipo de sustrato sobre el que reacciona la enzima o molécula catalítica.
Descriptor Portuguese: Especificidade por Substrato
Descriptor French: Spécificité du substrat
Entry term(s): Specificities, Substrate
Specificity, Substrate
Substrate Specificities
Tree number(s): G02.111.835
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D013379
Scope note: A characteristic feature of enzyme activity in relation to the kind of substrate on which the enzyme or catalytic molecule reacts.
Annotation: almost never IM; coord NIM with specific enzyme or catalytic molecule (IM)
Allowable Qualifiers: DE drug effects
ES ethics
GE genetics
IM immunology
PH physiology
RE radiation effects
Public MeSH Note: 78
History Note: 78
DeCS ID: 13765
Unique ID: D013379
NLM Classification: QU 135
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1978/01/01
Date of Entry: 1977/04/27
Revision Date: 2008/07/08
Substrate Specificity - Preferred
Concept UI M0020684
Scope note A characteristic feature of enzyme activity in relation to the kind of substrate on which the enzyme or catalytic molecule reacts.
Preferred term Substrate Specificity
Entry term(s) Specificities, Substrate
Specificity, Substrate
Substrate Specificities



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