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Enzyme Pathway for a coral colony

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Enzyme Kinetics

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Enzyme Kinetics (Michaelis-Menten)Live

reaction rate vs substrate

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Vmax

Inhibitor [I]/Ki (competitive)

Lineweaver-Burk plot

Michaelis-Menten kinetics describe how reaction rate rises with substrate and saturates at Vmax. Km is the substrate concentration giving half-maximal rate — a measure of enzyme affinity. A competitive inhibitor raises the apparent Km without changing Vmax, seen as a shift in the double-reciprocal Lineweaver-Burk line.

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Vmax100

Apparent Km5.0

v at [S]=Km50.0

Governing equation

v = \frac{V _{ma x} [ S ]}{K _{m} + [ S ]} = \frac{100 [ S ]}{5.0 + [ S ]}

Reading this result: With Km 5, the rate hits half of Vmax (100) at [S]=5; pushing substrate well past Km barely raises v as the curve flattens toward saturation.

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