... method, the inhibitor competeswith a high excess of substrate for the active sites of the enzyme; therefore, the slow-onset phase of the reaction may not always be observed [18]. This isshown in the ... time, the fluorescence of the solution maybe represented as the sum of the fluorescence of the variousmolecular species present in the mixture, free trimeric pro-tein, P, free ligand, L, and trimeric ... Con-centrations of the ligand varied in the range 0.05–6.4 lm.Concentrations of protein and ligand refer to the situationprior to mixing in the stopped-flow apparatus (i.e. to the concentrations in the...