Question

How do competitive inhibitors inhibit the action of an enzyme? Comment on Vmax and Km for this type of inhibition.​

Answer 1

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• In competitive inhibition, an enzyme can bind substrate (forming an ES complex) or inhibitor (EI) but not both (ESI). The competitive inhibitor resembles the substrate and binds to the active site of the enzyme (Figure 8.15). The substrate is thereby prevented from binding to the same active site.