Recent fluorescence spectroscopy measurements of the turnover time distribution of single-enzyme turnover kinetics of β-galactosidase provide evidence of Michaelis-Menten kinetics at low substrate concentration. However, at high substrate concentrations, the dimensionless variance of the turnover time distribution shows systematic deviations from the Michaelis-Menten prediction. This difference...

Analysis of immobilized enzyme in situ is a crucial step to embed an enzyme onto the planar technology of standard integrated circuit (IC) and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) for a bioreactor or enzyme-coupled biosensor. A surface reaction limited model, based on a systematized and standardized approach, mathematically derived from mass transfer dynamics and the Michaelis-Menten equation ...

The microbial reductive dechlorination kinetics of pentachloroaniline (PCA) and less chlorinated anilines (CAs) were investigated with a mixed, fermentative/ methanogenic culture. Batch dechlorination assays were performed with all available CAs at an initial concentration of 3 microM, and an incubation temperature of 22 degrees C. Dechlorination of PCA, two tetrachloroanilines (2,3,4,5- and 2,...

Dynamic co-operativity in monomeric enzymes is characterized in terms of a non-Michaelis-Menten kinetic behaviour. The latter is believed to be associated with mechanisms that include multiple reaction pathways due to enzymatic conformational fluctuations. Recent advances in single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy have provided new fundamental insights on the possible mechanisms underlying re...

We perform Monte Carlo simulations in three-dimensional (3D) lattice in order to study diffusion-controlled and mixed activation-diffusion reactions following an irreversible Michaelis-Menten scheme in crowded media. The simulation data reveal the rate coefficient dependence on time for diffusion-controlled bimolecular reactions developing in three-dimensional media with obstacles, as predicted...

We construct efficient designs for the Michaelis-Menten enzyme kinetic model capable of checking model assumption. An extended model, called EMAX model is also considered for this purpose. This model is widely used in pharmacokinetics and reduces to the MichaelisMenten model for a specific choice of the parameter setting. Our strategy is to find efficient designs for estimating the parameters i...