**Enzyme Inhibition**
**Irreversible Inhibitors (Suicide Inhibitors)**
* Covalently bind to enzyme
* One inhibitor molecule can permanently shut off one enzyme molecule
* Often structural analogs of substrates or products
* Can be used as drugs
* Does not affect catalysis
**Reversible Inhibitors**
* Bind to and can dissociate from enzyme
* No change in Vmax, apparent increase in Km
**Competitive Inhibition**
* Binds to active site
* Often structural analogs of substrates or products
* Lineweaver-Burk lines intersect y-axis
* Can be overcome by increasing substrate concentration
**Un-Competitive Inhibition**
* Only binds to ES complex
* Decreases Vmax, apparent decrease in Km
* Lineweaver-Burk lines intersect x-axis
**Enzyme Allosteric Regulation**
Allostery: binding to a site *different* from the active site causes a change in shape of the enzyme, affecting its function.
* Binding of a modulator to a regulatory site can either increase or decrease enzyme activity.
* Allosteric enzymes often have multiple subunits.
**Allosteric Regulation Kinetics**
* **Sigmoidal Kinetics:** Cooperative binding of substrate to multiple subunits.
* **T state:** Less active enzyme
* **R state:** More active enzyme
* **Allosteric Activator:** Binds to the regulatory site, stabilizing the R state.
* **Allosteric Inhibitor:** Binds to the regulatory site, stabilizing the T state.
**Examples of Allosteric Enzymes:**
* Hemoglobin
* Phosphofructokinase
* Aspartate transcarbamoylase
Module 3: Lesson 7 Enzyme Inhibition
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