Enzyme Kinetics
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Abstract
Background
Enzyme kinetics is the study of the rates of chemical reactions that are catalyzed by enzymes. The study of enzyme’s kinetics provides insights into the catalytic mechanism of the enzyme, its role in metabolism, how its activity is controlled in the cell and how drugs and poisons can inhibit its activity (2). The rates of an enzyme catalyzed reaction generally changes with change in enzyme concentration, substrate concentration, temperature, pH, time, and presence of enzyme inhibitors. For this particular experiment, the determination of enzyme activity, Trypsin, was obtained by changing the concentration of its substrate concentration (1). For these purposes, the Michaelis-Menten equation was used in combination with a double-reciprocal or Lineweaver-Burke plot to plot obtained data and the enzymatic activity of Trypsin was......
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