Most textbooks and lecturers present Michaelis-Menten kinetics using the equation v = Vmax [S]/(Km + [S]). There are advantages to presenting this relationship in a slightly different form, namely v = Vmax /{1 + (Km /[S])}. We articulate advantages for single-substrate reactions and extend the formalism to include the three classes of bi-substrate reactions.
Keywords: Michaelis-Menten; kinetics; pedagogy.
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