MICHAELIS CONSTANT


Meaning of MICHAELIS CONSTANT in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ mī-ˈkā-ləs-, mə- ]

noun

Etymology: Leonor Michaelis died 1949 American biochemist

Date: 1930

: a constant that is a measure of the kinetics of an enzyme reaction and that is equivalent to the concentration of substrate at which the reaction takes place at one half its maximum rate

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