A method of graphically analyzing substrate-inhibition kinetics.

A model of substrate inhibition for enzyme catalysis was extended to describe the kinetics of photosynthetic production of ethylene by a recombinant cyanobacterium, which exhibits light-inhibition behavior similar to the substrate-inhibition behavior in enzyme reactions. To check the validity of the model against the experimental data, the model equation, which contains three kinetic parameters, was transformed so that a linear plot of the data could be made. The plot yielded reasonable linearity, and the parameter values could be estimated from the plot. The linear-plot approach was then applied to other inhibition kinetics including substrate inhibition of enzyme reactions and inhibitory growth of bacteria, whose analyses would otherwise require nonlinear least-squares fits or data measured in constrained ranges. Plots for three totally different systems all showed reasonable linearity, which enabled visual validation of the assumed kinetics. Parameter values evaluated from the plots were compared with results of nonlinear least-squares fits. A normalized linear plot for all the results discussed in this work is also presented, where dimensionless rates as a function of dimensionless concentration lie in a straight line. The linear-plot approach is expected to be complementary to nonlinear least-squares fits and other currently used methods in analyses of substrate-inhibition kinetics. Copyright 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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