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sources on various Keq values?

John Woods eanv20 at castle.ed.ac.uk
Fri Jan 14 09:45:06 EST 1994


SCHLOSSER at ciit.org writes:

>:-)

>So, presumably, the "Keq" that one would want to model a reversible step
>(one in which the enzymes for both the forward and reverse reactions are
>present at signficant activities) in a metabolic pathway is not 
>the true (thermodynamic) Keq, but the ratio of concentrations that exist 
>at steady state. 

Why the need to redefine things?  This "Keq" at steady state is
nothing else but the ``The Mass Action Ratio''  :-)

			... Joao Pedro Moniz Barreto

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