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So we can write down the following kinetic equations where we use the quasi-steady-state assumptions for both intermediate enzyme complexes:

Again we can write down the total enzyme concentration and assume it to be constant over the time scale in question

Now again we express [ES] in terms of the other variables

Now we plug this into the equation for and we can express [EI] in terms of the other variables

Finally we can find again an expression for the rate of substrate conversion to product

In the last equation we have written a Michaelis-Menten like formula with modified constants, thus in this case we have for the measured constants the following functions

We see that for the limiting case , thus when the last step from EI to E + P is much faster than the previous step, we get again the original equation. Mathematically we have then and .