Ogston hypothesis
The proposal that an enzyme can distinguish in its substrate between two like substituents on a carbon atom that also carries two unlike groups, through binding sites for three of the four substituents, which forces the substrate to display in a unique configuration one of the like groups. (see also chirality; meso-carbon; symmetry)Ogston, A.G. (1978) Nature (London) 162, 963
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