International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 10 (1987), Issue 4, Pages 797-804
doi:10.1155/S0161171287000887
Studies on the differential equations of enzyme kinetics. I. bimolecular scheme: simplified model
1Biophysics Laboratory, La Feria 78559-0951, Texas, USA
2Department of Mathematics, Pan American University, Ldinburg 78539, Texas, USA
Received 29 April 1986
Copyright © 1987 Claude Marmasse and Joseph Wiener. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
The main properties of the solution of the differential system of the model
are obtained by qualitative integration. The integral curve is compared with the
solutions given by the two classical approximations to the problem: it is shown that
the steady-state approximation is to be preferred to the rapid equilibrium theory as
a general method and the conditions under which they will furnish accurate results
are discussed.