Talk:ecoenzyme

RFV discussion: October–December 2020

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ecoenzyme

Rfv-sense: A solution made from kitchen waste that may be used as a cleaner. I'm not sure what these quotes mean but they surely have nothing to do with kitchen waste:

1. 1999, Plant Responses to Environmental Stresses, page 407:

   The authors introduce the concept of the ecoenzyme that both mediates adaptations to stress as well as being itself modified.

2. 2016, Sanjeev Rajput, Geological Controls for Gas Hydrates and Unconventionals, page 86:

   Free-living bacteria use diversified hydrolytic ecoenzymes to progressively break down particles to polymers and then depolymerize the dimers and monomers.

DTLHS (talk) 05:15, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

In the first quotation, the sense is one coined by Lüttge et al. (1995), Stress responses of tonoplast proteins: an example of an example for molecular ecophysiology and the search for eco-enzymes.^[1] (In some citations of this article, tonoplast is (auto-?)“corrected” to transport.) Note that this is more commonly spelled with a hyphen; the authors define an eco-enzyme as “an enzyme which shows ecophysiological reactions by (i) mediating adaptations (i.e. in contrast to a house-keeping enzyme), and (ii) undergoing modification itself (i.e. in contrast to a stress enzyme)”. A (hyphenated) use of this sense is found here. I do not see enough uses to satisfy CFI. A very different sense found in the scholarly literature is that of an enzyme produced by E. coli. In the second quotation, eco- is clearly the modern prefix meaning “ecologically sound”, “environment-friendly”, so this is about enzymes (not a “solution”) produced by bacteria (not from kitchen waste) that catalyze a reaction in an environment-friendly way.  --Lambiam 21:14, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

RFV-failed Kiwima (talk) 19:42, 29 December 2020 (UTC)