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The following kinetic data were obtained for an enzyme:

[S] mM 1 2 5 10 20 50
V umol/ml*sec 0.61 1.19 2.78 5 8.33 13.9

What is the Km of this enzyme?



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To determine the Km of the enzyme, we need to use the Michaelis-Menten equation:
  
where V is the velocity of the reaction, [S] is the substrate concentration, Vmax is the maximum velocity of the reaction, and Km is the Michaelis constant.

We can rearrange the equation to get:
  

The concept used in this problem is Michaelis-Menten kinetics, which relates the initial reaction rate of an enzyme-catalyzed reaction to the concentration of substrate using the Michaelis constant (Km).


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