Allosteric Inhibitors

Thanks!!!!!!!!! :) So just to clarify on the wording: Allosteric sites can either house activators or inhibitors. And noncompetitive sites are what? Are there any other defining characteristics of allosteric ...

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enzymes have competitive inhibition, allosteric inhibition, retroinhibition etc. But the situation is more complex when you are working with big proteins, such as the Na/K pump. By the way, NA/K pump inhibitors are digitonine and oubaine... :lol:

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Allosteric enzymes: Inhibitor is the garage door. It is not competing with the substrate for ... It's not competing for the active site but the name's thrown me slightly! Non-competitve inhibitors change the overall shape of the enzyme so the 'key' can't even fit in the 'lock.' ...

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