Nick Rohacz: Week 4

Terminology

 * 1) The Michealis-Menten model of enzyme kinetics is a model used to measure the concentrations of enzymes, product, and substrate using rate laws and the model enzyme + substrate ↔ enzyme/substrate → enzyme + product.
 * 2) The experiment required for the Lineweaver-Burk approach to estimating parameters for Michealis-Menten produces a linear form of Michealis Menten where K is the slope/intercept and Vmax is 1/intercept.
 * 3) A Chemostat Reactor is a reactor in which the conditions are easily controlled by keeping homeostasis througha static equilibrium, thus allowing controlled growth of the organism.
 * 4) Exponential Growth is when the output of a model is not linear with the input, but rather the output far exceeds the amount input. Similar to the graph y=ex.

Estimating Michealis-Menten Parameters
Slope = 859.23 Intercept = 31.695 Vmax = 1/intercept = .03155 K = slope/intercept = 27.109

Nicholas A. Rohacz 23:24, 6 February 2011 (EST)