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Additional slides for L06

How to Determine Velocity-Substrate curve by experiments?

S P enzyme timer
d [P] d [S]
v = ─── or v = - ─── substrate
dt dt
spectrophotometer
buffer
The Km for an enzyme at the absence and presence
of 3 M of competitive inhibitor is 8 M and 12 M,
respectively. Calculate Ki.
⚫ The Km for an enzyme at the absence and
presence of 3 M of competitive inhibitor is 8 M
and 12 M, respectively. Calculate Ki.

Vmax [S]
12 M v0 =
a= = 1.5 αKM + [S]
8 M

a =1+
I 1.5 = 1 +
3 uM
Ki =6 M
Ki Ki
Following the purification of a recombinant enzyme E, a research
assistant carried out an enzymatic kinetic study in the absence or
presence of inhibitor X. The Lineweaver-Burk plot is shown below.

Based on the data provided in the plot,


What is the nature of the inhibition? How
you arrive your answer?

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