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SUBMITTER: Palmier MO
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2211277 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Palmier Mark O MO Van Doren Steven R SR
Analytical biochemistry 20070718 1
Fluorescence change is convenient for monitoring enzyme kinetics. Unfortunately, it loses linearity as the absorbance of the fluorescent substrate increases with concentration. When the sum of absorbance at excitation and emission wavelengths exceeds 0.08, this inner filtering effect (IFE) alters apparent initial velocities, K(m), and k(cat). The IFE distortion of apparent initial velocities can be corrected without doing fluorophore dilution assays. Using the substrate's extinction coefficients ...[more]