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Most textbooks and lecturers present Michaelis–Menten kinetics using the equation v = Vmax[S]/(Km + [S]). There are advantages to presenting this relationship in a slightly different form, namely v = Vmax/{1 + (Km/[S])}. We articulate advantages for single-substrate reactions and extend the formalism to include the three classes of bi-substrate reactions.
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