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Abstract
Multienzyme complexes and multifunctional proteins may confer a kinetic advantage by channelling reaction intermediates between consecutive enzymes and reducing the transient time for the establishment of steady states. A general means for quantitatively assessing the contribution of channelling to the reduction of pool size and transient time is presented. Restrictions to the kinetic advantage are identified, and it is shown that no channelling advantage is obtained at high enzyme concentration or for enzymes which exhibit rapid-equilibrium kinetic behaviour.Mesh:
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Year: 1989 PMID: 2604733 PMCID: PMC1133622 DOI: 10.1042/bj2640605
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biochem J ISSN: 0264-6021 Impact factor: 3.857