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Unraveling Entropic Rate Acceleration Induced by Solvent Dynamics in Membrane Enzymes
Published on: January 16, 2016
Evaluation of true kinetic parameters for reversible immobilized enzyme reactions
H Ishikawa1, T Tanaka, K Kurose
1Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Osaka Prefecture, 804 Mozu-Umemachi 4-cho, Sakai, Osaka 591, Japan.
Abstract:
For a reversible one-substrate reaction system that follows the Haldane reaction mechanism, a new and effective method has been proposed to extract true or intrinsic kinetic parameters of immobilized enzymes from diffusion limited rate data. The method utilizes the effectiveness factors correlated in terms of the general modulus defined by Aris and Bischoff, and a new modulus defined in the present study. It requires a trial-and-error calculation, but only a few data points. Furthermore, it provides a saving of materials such as substrates and enzymes, and takes less time for experiments compared to the initial rate methods. The usefulness of the method is demonstrated by determining the kinetic parameters for membrane bound fumarase which catalyzes the reaction of the conversion of fumarate to L-malate, for which the equilibrium constant is ca. 4.
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