The total quasi-steady-state approximation for fully competitive enzyme reactions

Morten Gram Pedersen, A.M. Bersani, E. Bersani

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    Abstract

    The validity of the Michaelis-Menten-Briggs-Haldane approximation for single enzyme reactions has recently been improved by the formalism of the total quasi-steady-state approximation. This approach is here extended to fully competitive systems, and a criterion for its validity is provided. We show that it extends the Michaelis-Menten-Briggs-Haldane approximation for such systems for a wide range of parameters very convincingly, and investigate special cases. It is demonstrated that our method is at least roughly valid in the case of identical affinities. The results presented should be useful for numerical simulations of many in vivo reactions.
    Original languageEnglish
    JournalBulletin of Mathematical Biology
    Volume69
    Issue number1
    Pages (from-to)433-457
    ISSN0092-8240
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2007

    Keywords

    • substrate-inhibitor system
    • quasi-steady-state assumption
    • Michaelis-Menten kinetics
    • competitive substrates

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