title: Structural identifiability of models characterizing saturable binding: comparison of pseudo-steady-state and non-pseudo-steady-state model formulations.
abstract: A two-state variable model in which saturable binding takes place is studied. Two mathematical representations of the same model are considered, one a standard chemical kinetics type of polynomial system, the other a reduced model formed from the original system via a pseudo-steady-state approximation. For a particular experiment the structural identifiability of the set of unknown parameters of each model is examined using the similarity transformation approach. The analysis shows that when the pseudo-steady-state approximation is made a certain degree of structural identifiability is lost in the sense that fewer individual parameters can be uniquely identified.
authors.affiliation: Department of Engineering, University of Warwick, Coventry, England.
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Chappell
mesh_terms: D007700:Kinetics; D008433:Mathematics; D008954:Models, Biological; D010599:Pharmacokinetics