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Graphical Methods in Enzyme Chemistry

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AGREEING with Prof. J. B. S. Haldane's view that “Squabbles as to priority are undignified”1, I point out that in 1932 C. S. Hanes2 used the linear form x/v = x/V + K/V of the Michaelis equation for his experimental results with amylase, where v is the initial rate of hydrolysis and x the initial concentration of starch.

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  1. Haldane, J. B. S., Nature, 179, 832 (1957).

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  2. Hanes, C. S., Biochem. J., 26, 1406 (1932).

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BRIGGS, G. Graphical Methods in Enzyme Chemistry. Nature 179, 1256 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1038/1791256b0

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