title: Evaluation of rate constants for enzyme-catalysed reactions by the jackknife technique. Application to liver alcohol dehydrogenase.
abstract: Steady-state measurements of enzyme-catalysed reactions are capable of providing more information about the rate constants of the individual steps than is commonly obtained. We have applied a combination of the jackknife and non-linear regression techniques to measurements of the rate of oxidation of ethanol by NAD+, catalysed by alcohol dehydrogenase from horse liver. This has permitted values and confidence intervals to be assigned to the eight rate constants that characterize the binding of ethanol and NAD+ in random order to the enzyme, and to the net rate constant kcat. for the breakdown of the ternary complex.
mesh_terms: D000429:Alcohol Oxidoreductases / Q000378:metabolism*; D007700:Kinetics; D008956:Models, Chemical
chemical_list: D000429:Alcohol Oxidoreductases