Biology A-Level
Effect of substrate concentration on inhibition
What Effect of substrate concentration on inhibition means in Biology A-Level, as defined for OCR.
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Raising substrate concentration reduces the effect of a competitive inhibitor because more substrate molecules occupy the active sites, but adding more substrate does not overcome non-competitive inhibition.
Topics that use Effect of substrate concentration on inhibition
- Enzymes (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Activation energy and enzyme–substrate complexes
- Cellular metabolism
- Coenzyme
- Cofactor
- Competitive inhibitors
- Digestion and absorption of products
- Effect of missing cofactors on reaction rate
- Enzyme specificity and active-site complementarity
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