Organisms can produce/release enzymes both intra-and extra-cellularly. In general we always measure the activity of extracellular enzymes as they are more efficient to breakdown the substrate/ compounds than their intra-cellular counterpart. I would like to know that is their any situation when one should give more importance to intra-cellular enzymes than there extracellular counterpart.
Dear Tarafdar
The extracellular enzyme started release when the organisms in stationary stage with growth curve. but some of these enzyme release in lag face that means that depends on the types of these organisms.
DNA and RNA polymerases act intracellularly (i.e., in the nucleus)and both are of tremendous importance to the cell; the same is true for the respiratory enzymes (in the mitochondria) that produce ATP for the cell. So there must be some flaw in your assumption.
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