Abstract
We determine the limit sets of a system modelling suicide substrate kinetics, and show that a result by Tatsunami et al. (Biochim Biophys Acta 662:226–235, 1981), derived under additional quasi-steady state assumptions, holds generally.
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Goeke, A., Schilli, C., Walcher, S. et al. A note on the kinetics of suicide substrates. J Math Chem 50, 1373–1377 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10910-012-9979-8
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