enzyme inhibitor
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molecule that binds to an enzyme and decreases its activity
Research
1,993,115 papers- Enzyme inhibitor discovery by activity-based protein profiling.Annual review of biochemistry · 2014
- Enzyme-inhibitor interactions at the plant-pathogen interface.Current opinion in plant biology · 2008
- Label-free flow cytometry-based enzyme inhibitor identification.Analytica chimica acta · 2021
- Class A beta-lactamases--enzyme-inhibitor interactions and resistance.Pharmacology & therapeutics · 1999
- Affimer-Enzyme-Inhibitor Switch Sensor for Rapid Wash-free Assays of Multimeric Proteins.ACS sensors · 2019
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- reaction inhibitor
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- Enzyme inhibitors
- physically interacts with
- enzyme
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Encyclopedic overview
Top: enzyme (E) accelerates conversion of substrates (S) to products (P). Bottom: by binding to the enzyme, inhibitor (I) blocks binding of substrate. Binding site shown in blue checkerboard, substrate as black rectangle, and inhibitor as green rounded rectangle.
An enzyme inhibitor is a molecule that binds to an enzyme and blocks its activity. Enzymes are proteins that speed up chemical reactions necessary for life, in which substrate molecules are converted into products. An enzyme facilitates a specific chemical reaction by binding the substrate to its active site, a specialized area on the enzyme that accelerates the most difficult step of the reaction.
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