It is mentioned in the lecture that Michaelis and Menten's equation is an hyperbola, but there isn't a proof, here it is:
The $ xy $ term is annoying, so we let $ x = X + Y $ and $ y = X - Y $, this is a linear transformation that simply rotate and scales, so we have
Now we can see why it is a hyperbola - simply complete the square will lead us to the standard hyperbola.
Let $ x = [s] $ and $ y = v_{0} $ as we see in the graph. Let $ m = v_{max} $ and $ k = k_{m} $ to simplify notation. We have
$
\begin{eqnarray*}
y &=& \frac{mx}{k + x} \\
(k+x)y &=& mx \\
ky + xy &=& mx \\
\end{eqnarray*}
$
The $ xy $ term is annoying, so we let $ x = X + Y $ and $ y = X - Y $, this is a linear transformation that simply rotate and scales, so we have
$
\begin{eqnarray*}
k(X - Y) + (X + Y)(X - Y) &=& m(X + Y) \\
kX - kY + X^2 - Y^2 &=& mX + mY \\
\end{eqnarray*}
$
Now we can see why it is a hyperbola - simply complete the square will lead us to the standard hyperbola.
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