Biotechnology Engineering (M.Phil./Ph.D.) 2014 Panjab University Entrance Exam With Answers

Practice Mode:
45.

Michaelis and Menten assumed that the overall reaction for an enzyme-catalyzed reaction could be written as

PGREF-342
Using this reaction, the rate of breakdown of the enzyme-substrate complex can be described by the expression :
A: k1([Et]-[ES])[S]
B: k-1 [ES] + k2[ES]
C: k2 [ES]
D: k-1 [ES]

The answer is: B