Effect of substrate concentration on enzyme catalysed reaction

Rate of reaction increases proportional to increase in [substrate]Rate of reaction then levels off/ plateaus not all active sites are being used; adding substrate increases RoR all active sites used/ [enzyme] becomes limiting

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