Volume 240, Issue 1

IUPAC‐IUBMB Joint Commission on Biochemical Nomenclature (JCBN)

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Recommendations for Nomenclature and Tables in Biochemical Thermodynamics

Recommendations 1994

Robert A. Alberty

Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

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Robert A. Alberty

Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

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First published: August 1996

https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1432-1033.1996.0001h.x

Citations: 15

Membership of the Panel on Biochemical Thermodynamics during the preparation of this report (1991–1993) was as follows: Convener: K. A. Alberty (USA); A. Cornish‐Bowden (France); Q. H. Gibson (USA); R. N. Goldberg (USA); G. G. Hammes (USA); W. Jencks (USA); K. F. Tipton (Ireland); R. Veech (USA); H. V. Westerhoff (Netherlands); E. C. Webb (Australia).

Membership of the IUBMB‐IUPAC Joint Commission on Biochemical Nomenclature (JCBN) during the preparation of this report was as follows: Chairman: J. F. G. Vliegenthart (Netherlands); Secretary: A. J. Barrett (UK); A. Chester (Sweden); D. Coucouvanis (USA); C. Liébecq (Belgium); K. Tipton (Ireland); P. Venetianer (Hungary); Associate Members: H. B. F. Dixon (UK); J. C. Kigg (Netherlands).

Abstract

Chemical equations are written in terms of specific ionic and elemental species and balance elements and charge, whereas biochemical equations are written in terms of reactants that often consist of species in equilibrium with each other and do not balance elements that are assumed fixed, such as hydrogen at constant pH. Both kinds of reaction equations are needed in biochemistry. When the pH and the free concentrations of certain metal ions are specified, the apparent equilibrium constant K′ for a biochemical reaction is written in terms of sums of species and can be used to calculate a standard transformed Gibbs energy of reaction Δ_rG′^o. Transformed thermodynamic properties can be calculated directly from conventional thermodynamic properties of species. Calorimetry or the dependence of K′ on temperature can be used to obtain the standard transformed enthalpy of reaction Δ_rH′^o. Standard transformed Gibbs energies of formation Δ_fG′^o(i) and standard transformed enthalpies of formation Δ_fH′^o(i) for reactants (sums of species) can be calculated at various T, pH, pMg, and ionic strength (I) if sufficient information about the chemical reactions involved is available. These quantities can also be calculated from measurement of K′ for a number of reactions under the desired conditions. Tables can be used to calculate Δ_rG′^o and Δ_rH′^o for many more reactions.

Appendix

Appendix: survey of current biochemical thermodynamic tables (the reader is cautioned on distinguishing chemical reactions from biochemical reactions.)

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Standard thermodynamic tables

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