Enzyme Kinetics

Summary

Prof. Krystyn Van Vliet discusses the importance and utility of enzyme kinetics for drug development. Alongside the video, students derive a rate equation (the Michaelis-Menten equation) for a simple enzyme-substrate system. Returning to the drug development example, students see that rate equations can help them infer information about reaction mechanisms.

Learning Objectives

After watching this video students will be able to:

• Explain how enzymes affect reaction rates.
• Derive a rate law for a general enzyme-catalyzed reaction.

Funding provided by the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)

Developed by the Teaching and Learning Laboratory (TLL) at MIT for SUTD

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