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Why does increasing substrate eventually produce diminishing increases in the modeled enzyme reaction rate?
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At low substrate concentration, adding substrate strongly increases the modeled initial reaction rate because many enzyme molecules are available to form enzyme-substrate complexes. As substrate becomes abundant, a larger fraction of catalytic sites is occupied and the rate approaches a limiting value rather than increasing without bound.