Relationship Between Substrate Concentration & Rate of Enzymatic Reaction

• E+S?ES?P+E

• V=velocity

  • Vmax = overall rate of enzyme-catalyzed reaction

• Km

  • Concentration of specific substrate at which a given enzyme yields 1/2 its maximum velocity (1/2Vmax)
  • Michaelis-Menton Constant

Leonor Michaelis & Maud Menten 1913

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