Alondra Vega: Week 4

Terminology

The Michaelis-Menten equation describes the relationship between the rate of a substrate conversion by an enzyme to the concentration of the substrate in the equation. V is the rate of conversion, [S] is the substrate concentration and K_m is the Michaelis constant. K_m approximates the affinity of enzyme for the substrate.
The Lineweaver-Burk experiment shows a way of illustrating kinetic date. The plot is produced by taking the reciprocal of the Michaelis-Menten equation. It will usually produce a linear function y = mx + b.
A chemostat reaction deals with the flow rate into the system and the flow rate out of the system. A mathematical model is used (a set of differential equations) to see the change in the steady state, or to find what the steady state is.
Exponential growth (including exponential decay) occurs when the growth rate of a mathematical function is proportional to the function's current value. It will produce a similar curve to e^x when plotted.

After working on excel with the Lineweaver-Burke technique with the given points, I found that V_max was 0.031551 and K was 27.10932. Vmax is found was by taking the inverse of the y-intercept on the trendline that we added on the graph. the K value was found by taking the slope of the line and dividing it by the intercept.