The Kinetics of Ternary Enzyme Complexes

Abstract

Equations have been derived for the kinetics of transferring enzymes on the assumption that the intermediate complex is ternary (enzyme-donor-acceptor) rather than binary (enzyme-donor). Deductions have been made from these equations which can be compared with the consequences of the most probable form of the binary-complex hypothesis. The two hypotheses lead to the expectation of quite different results in experiments using competing acceptors.