Quantifying enzyme activity in living cells.

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For over a century, enzymatic activity has been studied in vitro, assuming similar activity in the crowded cellular milieu. Here, we determined in real time the catalytic activity of TEM1-β-lactamase inside living cells and compared the values to those obtained in vitro We found the apparent in vivo catalytic efficiency, kcat/Km , to be lower than in vitro, with significant cell-to-cell variability. Surprisingly,...

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