Limiting Factors Affecting Enzymes: Competitive Inhibitors Flashcards

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An enzyme’s activity can be reduced or stopped, temporarily, by a reversible inhibitor
There are two types of reversible inhibitors:
Competitive inhibitors have a

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similar shape to that of the substrate molecules and therefore compete with the substrate for the active site

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Reversible inhibitors can act as

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regulators in metabolic pathways

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Why do metabolic reactions have to be tightly controlled

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Metabolic reactions must be very tightly controlled and balanced, so that no single enzyme can ‘run wild’ and continuously and uncontrollably generate more and more of a particular product

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For competitive inhibitors, countering the increase in inhibitor concentration by increasing the ………….. can increase the rate of reaction once more

and why is this

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substrate concentration

more substrate molecules mean they are more likely to collide with enzymes and form enzyme-substrate complexes)

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While a competitive inhibitor will lower the initial rate of reaction (by occupying some of the available active sites), eventually the same amount of

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product will be produced as would have been produced without the competitive inhibitor (the maximal rate is not affected)

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