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please help to draw a Michaelis menten curve, Vmax of 4/sec and Km of -2.5 uM....

please help to draw a Michaelis menten curve, Vmax of 4/sec and Km of -2.5 uM. and also when there is a competetive inhibitor present. thank you
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NHIBITOR 3 OTH COMETITIVE INHIBITORMichaelis-Menten curve is a plot between substrate concentration and velocity of the reaction or enzyme activity.

VM is the maximum velocity at which the reaction can run beyond which, despite of increasing the substrate concentration, the enzyme gets saturated. Km is the substrate concentration at which the velocity of the reaction is half (Vm/2); it cannot be negative).

Competitive inhibition is a reversible inhibition wherein the inhibitor molecule is similar in shape and structure of the substrate allowing it to compete for the active site of the enzyme with the substrate. Hence, the maximum velocity of the enzyme(Vm) remains unchanged (function of enzyme is not interfered with). The substrates binding to the enzyme would change cause a decrease in the slope of the graph, it would need more substrate molecules to reach the same velocity as earlier. So, the Km shifts to a higher value.

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