Michaelis-Menten kinetics
- Michaelis-Menten kinetics
Mi·chae·lis-Men·ten kinetics -'men-tən- n pl but sing or pl in constr the behavior of an enzyme-catalyzed reaction with a single substrate esp. as exhibited by plotting the velocity of the reaction against the concentration of the substrate which yields a hyperbolic curve approaching a horizontal asymptote rather than yielding a straight line as in nonenzymatic reactions and which has an equation of the form where
v is the velocity of the reaction,
V is the asymptotic value of the velocity,
Km is the Michaelis constant, and
s is the concentration of the substrate
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