External diffusion effects on the kinetic constants of immobilized enzyme systems
β Scribed by Sun Bok Lee; Dewey D.Y. Ryu
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1980
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 761 KB
- Volume
- 84
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-5193
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β¦ Synopsis
In order to further our understanding of immobilized enzyme reaction kinetics, the effects of external diffusion on the kinetic constants are studied for various reaction systems. It is shown that the variations of apparent kinetic constants with diftusional limitations are not the same as those of Michaelis-Menten kinetics, although both the inhibition kinetics and the two substrate reaction kinetics can be expressed in the form of simple Michaelis-Menten type by using apparent rate parameters. We found that there will be changes in the apparent kinetic constants depending not only on the types of enzyme reaction kinetics but also on the relative rate of diffusion or flow-through in the microenvironment. For substrate inhibition kinetics, both the apparent maximum reaction rate and the apparent Michaelis constant decrease while the apparent maximum reaction rate for product inhibition kinetics is increased and the apparent Michaelis constant decrease as mass transfer limitation is reduced. In the case of two substrate enzyme reaction kinetics, as the diffusio'nal limitation is reduced the apparent maximum reaction rate increase but the apparent Michaelis constant can increase, decrease or remain nearly constant depending on the values of relative affinity and on the fixed substrate concentrations. The results of theoretical analyses are compared with the experimental data obtained and reported previously, and a very good agreement was found.
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