BRAINCAKENon-Competitive Inhibitors
Non-competitive inhibitors bind to a site which is not the active site.
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Key terms in this lesson
- tertiary structure
- The further coiling and folding of a polypeptide into a specific three-dimensional shape, held by ionic bonds, hydrogen bonds and disulfide bridges between R-groups.
- active site
- The region of an enzyme, formed by the tertiary structure, with a shape complementary to its substrate, where the substrate binds.
- competitive inhibitor
- A molecule with a shape similar to the substrate that binds to the active site, reducing the number of enzyme-substrate complexes formed.