inhibition

• What can enzyme activity be prevented by?

  enzyme inhibitora
• what are enzyme inhibitors?

  molecules that bind to the enzyme that they inhibit
• what can inhibition be?


  competitive or non-competitive
• what is the structure of competitive inhibitor molecules?

  similar shape to that of substrate molecules
• what do competitive inhibitor molecules do?

  compete with the substrate molecules to bind to the active site, but no reaction takes place

  • instead, they BLOCK the active site, so NO SUBSTRATE molecules can FIT in it