Evening Star Newspaper, February 12, 1932, Page 14

rA_14 THE EVENING DR. LUNDELL GETS CHEMISTRY AWARD Study of Mysterious Enzymes Described by Dr. Balls to | American Society. A new laboratory has just been es- tablished here by the Agriculture De- partment for the investigation of scores of mysterious chemical substances feund only in living crganisms, which are basic factors in almost all the fore th the Washington br can Chemica! Sq Club last n by Dr who recenily came to W take charge of the worl time the Hillebr, ually by the Ameri- the Cosmos ld K. Balls, ton to At the same rd made an- for the greatest ontribution de by a Washington chemist during the year was given 1o Dr. Lundell of the Bureau of Standards for an outstanding book dealing with analytical chemistry. | Effécts Powerful. The chemistry of enzymes, Dr. Balls still an obscure sub- of some of them are s, | as phosphol proteins into what aye known as poly- peptides. From these, in turn are derived enzymes. Ea cific job. T a them and biochemica reveal many more Dr. Balls likened the enzymes to those other muysterious biochemical substances which are essential to life, the hormone secretions from the endo- crine glands and the vitamins con- tained in foods. All of these, present in extremely small amounts, are nec- essary parts of the infin of life. h he amino acids | series of s one spe- ast 100 of research may complex Unlike the others, and t ined from cead tissue. Their composition 1s almost entirely 'p Process. s made pos- peedi The speedi gible by the en great, Dr. B aid. There is one known as ca one preparation of | which decomposed 13,000 times _its weizht per minute of hydrogen peroxide into water and oxygen, Just what pur- pose such a powerful substance serves in the body nobody knows. It is present in almost all tissue, but es- pecially in the blood and liver. Every enzyme. Dr. Balls said. is spe- cific. It promotes only one physiologi- d since there are a| in the body, there for almost every been shown, he | | cipals” combination with a substance before decomposing it. “Some enzymes,” Dr. Balls continued, “especially some of the digestive enzymes, are able to break down chemi- cal substances which do not occur in rature, but which must be made in the laboratory. In this way we are able to tell something of how an enzyme Wworl We can make many curious derivatives of the amino acids, the building stones of the proteins, and study the effects of the enzymes upor them. “The preblem is to explain why some of the substances which do not occur naturally are decomposed by enzymes, while others very like them are not. It depends on how the atoms are ar- ranged in the molecule, and since the arrangement of the atoms affects polarized light when it is passed through a substance, there is a relation between the behavior to polarized light and the enzymes. Theory Developed. “We have developed a theory to ex- plain why the enzyme is affected by variations in the arrangement of the atcms. Certain atomic arrangements are more reactive than others, and the are those which combine c and then split apart. Other substances have been found which combire but are not afterwards split, so that we can tell something about what sort of a combination it is. “The chemical nature of ihe enzymes remains ahnost unknown. Three have been crystallized, w1l by Americans. The crystals are proteins, but we do not know enough about the proteins to tell how these enzymes work. Lately, in | the case of two of them, peroxidase and catalase, the active substance has : been shown to be related to hemin, the red-colored substance of the blood, which contains iron. One of the di- gestive enzymes has been shown to contain phosphorus, which it gives off > acid when it is posed. 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