Levels of thermodynamic treatment of biochemical reaction systems.
AUTOR(ES)
Alberty, R A
RESUMO
Equilibrium calculations on biochemical reaction systems can be made at three levels. Level 1 is the usual chemical calculation with species at specified temperature and pressure using standard Gibbs energies of formation of species or equilibrium constants K. Level 2 utilizes reactants such as ATP (a sum of species) at specified T, P, pH, and pMg with standard transformed Gibbs energies of formation of reactants or apparent equilibrium constants K'. Calculations at this level can also be made on the enzymatic mechanism for a biochemical reaction. Level 3 utilizes reactants at specified T, P, pH, and pMg, but the equilibrium concentrations of certain reactants are also specified. The fundamental equation of thermodynamics is derived here for Level 3. Equilibrium calculations at this level use standard transformed Gibbs energies of formation of reactants at specified concentrations of certain reactants or apparent equilibrium constants K". Level 3 is useful in calculating equilibrium concentrations of reactants that can be reached in a living cell when some of the reactants are available at steady-state concentrations. Calculations at all three levels are facilitated by the use of conservation matrices and stoichiometric number matrices for systems. Three cases involving glucokinase, glucose-6-phosphatase, and ATPase are discussed.
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