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Please show all your work and the thought process i.e why you did what you did, also I have to do this by hand with a calculator, so please DON'T use graphs or plot anything. Thank you.

The following data were obtained in a study of an enzyme known to follow Michaelis-Menten kinetics:

V0 (mol/min)

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217

325

433

488

647

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Substrate added (mmol/L):

0.8

2

4

6

1,000

The Km for this enzyme is approximately:

A) 1 mM

B) 2 mM

C) 4 mM

D) 6 mM

E) 1,000 mM

Thank you for all your help. The correct answer is 2mM

Explanation / Answer

The Km is best described as half of the Vmax.

So with the values of your Vo, the maximum velocity i.e. Vmax would be roughly about 700mol/min.

The half of the Vmax is 350mol/min, which is very near to the 325mol/min at the substrate concentration of 2mM.

So the Km of the reaction is 2mM approx.

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