Commemorating the 1913 Michaelis-Menten paper Die Kinetik der Invertinwirkung: Three perspectives

FEBS Journal

Volumn 281, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 435-463

  Deichmann, Ute ^a   Schuster, Stefan ^b   Mazat, Jean Pierre ^c,d   Cornish Bowden, Athel ^e  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c Institut de Biochimie et Genetique Cellulaires   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^e AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

enzyme kinetics; Henri; history and philosophy; initial rate; Menten; Michaelis; steady state

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; CATALYSIS; ENZYME BINDING; ENZYME CHEMISTRY; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; ENZYMOLOGY; GERMANY; HUMAN; JAPAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MICHAELIS CONSTANT; MICHAELIS MENTEN KINETICS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC FIGURE; PUBLICATION; QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; REVIEW; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SCIENTIST; STEADY STATE; UNITED STATES;

ENZYME KINETICS; HENRI; HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY; INITIAL RATE; MENTEN; MICHAELIS; STEADY STATE;

ALGORITHMS; BERLIN; BETA-FRUCTOFURANOSIDASE; BIOCHEMISTRY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; JAPAN; KINETICS; NEW YORK;

EID: 84892755535     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/febs.12598     Document Type: Review

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