Competitive inhibition

Learning objectives

  • To understand how an enzyme works.
  • To understand how a given enzyme can split a given substrate into products.
  • To understand how a given enzyme can join two given substrates to form one product.
  • To understand why an enzyme is substrate specific.
  • To understand how a competitive inhibitor works to slow down the catalytic activity.

Enzymes are catalysts. They speed up the rate of biochemical reactions. They convert a given substrate to the product of the reaction.

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