Applicability of competitive and noncompetitive kinetics to the reductive dechlorination of chlorinated ethenes

✍ Scribed by Herve Garant; Lee Lynd

• Book ID: 101240651
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 136 KB
• Volume: 57
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0006-3592
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0290(19980320)57:6<751::aid-bit13>3.0.co;2-a

✦ Synopsis

Reductive dechlorination of chlorinated ethenes has typically been modeled using standard Michaelis-Menten kinetic equations, implying that each dechlorination step is catalyzed by a unique biological factor. An alternative kinetic model is based on the assumption that all steps are mediated by a single factor. These two options are considered in the context of chlorinated ethene degradation by a previously characterized anaerobic culture. Competitive kinetics afford better chisquared and visual fits of the data set tested.