Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates is a 1961 book by sociologist Erving Goffman.
Vmax is equal to the product of the catalyst rate constant (kcat) and the concentration of the enzyme. The Michaelis-Menten equation can then be rewritten as V= Kcat [Enzyme] [S] / (Km + [S]). Kcat is equal to K2, and it measures the number of substrate molecules turned over by enzyme per second.
The noun CONSTANT OF PROPORTIONALITY has 1 sense: 1. the constant value of the ratio of two proportional quantities x and y; usually written y = kx, where k is the factor of proportionality. Familiarity information: CONSTANT OF PROPORTIONALITY used as a noun is very rare. Dictionary entry details. â¢ CONSTANT OF PROPORTIONALITY (noun).