Uncompetitive Inhibition - Biochemistry

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Which of the following is true of uncompetitive inhibitors of enzymes?

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The correct answer is that uncompetitive inhibitors of enzymes only affect enzymes that act on multiple substrates. Uncompetitive inhibitors bind to the enzyme-substrate complex only, not to the free enzyme. They distort the active site to prevent the enzyme from being catalytically active without actually blocking the binding of the substrate. This cannot occur with an enzyme that only acts on a single substrate at a time. Adding more substrate and lowering the amount of free enzyme available both apply to competitive inhibitors, which bind to free enzymes and block the substrate-binding site of the enzyme. Uncompetitive inhibitors do decrease the apparent KM on a Lineweaver-Burke plot, but they also lower the apparent VM.

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