GRE Subject Test: Biochemistry, Cell, and Molecular Biology › Help with Enzyme Kinetics
In a Lineweaver-Burk plot, what quantity determines the y-intercept?
A researcher is studying the rate of an enzyme-catalyzed reaction by placing increasing amounts of substrate into a solution containing the enzyme. After a certain concentration, the rate of the reaction plateaus and does not go any higher. What has happened?
What information is contained in a Lineweaver-Burk plot that is not present in a standard Michaelis-Menten plot?
Which of the following changes will alter of an enzyme-catalyzed reaction?
A catalyst is an enzyme that promotes a reaction. In terms of free energy, what does a catalyst change about the reaction to promote the reaction proceeding?